Seems they were caught a bit off-guard with sudden focus on JS, rushed changes too much between 9.5x and most of 10.x. Luckily, 10.6x releases seem to finally return to that nice feel of 9.2x.
But just to be more weird - for me the problems were never about crashing (though how I mostly disable plugins might help)
Sweden is the only country with sustained physical sales; it's also the cradle of some large websites related to this "piracy" thing, and where using them is pretty safe.
Oh, though large labels are still whining about Sweden of course - because they don't really see those sales. They think in terms of (their) "superstars", while it's a case of lots of new, great music made by many indies. They are obsolete, the world where you are be either with a label or don't exist is over.
There are more people alive right now than have ever lived before... period.
That's an urban myth, really. 100+ billion, according to most of the estimates (I think it works out to an average of around 1000 remains per km^2 of land surface, excluding Antarctic; quite feeble they are...well, and easily scattered)
Not exactly an exponential curve, too - present birth rates and number of annual births are very notably lower from their peak. And expected to decline further.
Yeah, it's often quite doable to dig up some genealogy. But still quite recent, still small bits (often also what is essentially a family mythology). And we generally don't care anyway. Plus at some still very recent point (say, 9g-grandmother), saying anything about our ancestors boils down to statistics.
Hollywood can no longer produce ground breaking cinema
A lot of people will be saying very similar thing when comparing present Hollywood movies (or games) to what they will have in few decades.
There was always lots of crap. It's just not remembered because it was...crap. And there's quite a few good things made, enough for "old times were better".
Hm, it also looks a bit like some public secret, like you all had a really good reason to not talk about it;)
BTW, practically nobody is missed, pretty quickly. Hardly anybody is even aware how estimates put the number of dead homo sapiens at 100+ billion. And can you say anything about your great-g-g-grandmother? (the one from the side of your mother, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-g-grandmother)
Though it does have MDI interface from the beginning, with the list of open pages not on some tab bar but in the Window menu. Fairly close / was probably a good choice in times of 640x480.
You didn't make the point how it deteriorates back, you said "nowadays Iran"
Anyway, what shah did to Iranian people can't be argued at all as better (what, more "western"? The '53 coup specifically threw that into the garbage) than the current islamic regime; relation of which to us is a classic blowback - and mostly this was (and is) a case of some representation, can very much look like it. This is the powerful force which propelled and kept Ayatollah in power. Not very encompassing when it comes to democratic processes (*), especially considering how Iran is one of the most secular places in the Middle East anyway, much more than many of our current so called "allies" there. Don't demonize its population.
This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. For many years, Iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my country, and there is indeed a tumultuous history between us. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. troops and civilians. This history is well known. Rather than remain trapped in the past, I have made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward.
^Barack Obama, recently. (*)Heck, the most fervent denier of the fairly workable amount of democratic values, present in Iran before the 1953 coup, is...current regime of Iran (and its not a new thing). Much stronger denier than the leader quoted above, who ultimately is representative of international opposition to Iran (and if this didn't stop him from saying the above, that should really hint at something)
The dispatcher system knows the telephone number, can request more info about it. Or - telecom network actively tracks the locations of mobile phones; it can save that information and attach it to the message just for SMS sent to 911.
The dispatcher system knows the telephone number, can request more info about it. Or - telecom network knows the location of mobile phone; their SMS center can attach and forward the location just for SMS sent to 911.
(and what's that hysteria about "French-dominated ITU"?)
#1 browser in Ukraine, exchanging #1 spot with FF in Russian Federation, nearing 50% and far above other browsers in Belarus; generally a very notable share in most of ex Warsaw Pact. Some worldwide stats appear to be underreporting, by focusing on pages most likely to be visited by specific demographics / rarely visited by some others. How Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide by website stats (despite most of its users being in places with expensive data access, certainly frugal about number of pages visited) might help one day, when those people shift to desktops.
Opera addons are at least based on W3C widget specs...
(if you really want speed you'd better not ignore Opera BTW - especially in cases when it really matters (slow machine, slow connection; this contributes to CIS popularity))
Anyway - they have healthy, rising profitability as is (also during the last 3 years)
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You just can't have it everywhere. But you are practically blind if going from extremely bright area to some modestly lit one.
Intensity of light drops with cube of distance, open lights can't help with that (while wasting at least half of emitted light)
Seems they were caught a bit off-guard with sudden focus on JS, rushed changes too much between 9.5x and most of 10.x. Luckily, 10.6x releases seem to finally return to that nice feel of 9.2x.
But just to be more weird - for me the problems were never about crashing (though how I mostly disable plugins might help)
Oh just accept getting old. Accept how you change. Don't bother rest of the world with it, they don't care / it happens to everybody.
Sweden is the only country with sustained physical sales; it's also the cradle of some large websites related to this "piracy" thing, and where using them is pretty safe.
Oh, though large labels are still whining about Sweden of course - because they don't really see those sales. They think in terms of (their) "superstars", while it's a case of lots of new, great music made by many indies. They are obsolete, the world where you are be either with a label or don't exist is over.
There are more people alive right now than have ever lived before ... period.
That's an urban myth, really. 100+ billion, according to most of the estimates (I think it works out to an average of around 1000 remains per km^2 of land surface, excluding Antarctic; quite feeble they are...well, and easily scattered)
Not exactly an exponential curve, too - present birth rates and number of annual births are very notably lower from their peak. And expected to decline further.
Yeah, it's often quite doable to dig up some genealogy. But still quite recent, still small bits (often also what is essentially a family mythology). And we generally don't care anyway. Plus at some still very recent point (say, 9g-grandmother), saying anything about our ancestors boils down to statistics.
http://www.kyon.pl/img/12029,motivator,Tommy_Lee_Jones,facepalm,glasses,screencap,No_land_for_old_men,No_Country_for_Old_Men,.html
Good thing we don't use stealth and camouflage.
Hollywood can no longer produce ground breaking cinema
A lot of people will be saying very similar thing when comparing present Hollywood movies (or games) to what they will have in few decades.
There was always lots of crap. It's just not remembered because it was...crap. And there's quite a few good things made, enough for "old times were better".
Hm, it also looks a bit like some public secret, like you all had a really good reason to not talk about it ;)
BTW, practically nobody is missed, pretty quickly. Hardly anybody is even aware how estimates put the number of dead homo sapiens at 100+ billion. And can you say anything about your great-g-g-grandmother? (the one from the side of your mother, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-g-grandmother)
Manifest Destiny and overall earlier treatment of Native Americans or imported Africans don't count?
Seems they was too much rushing in the times of 9.6x-10.x. Luckily, lately it seems to return to the quite polished state of 9.2x releases.
Though it does have MDI interface from the beginning, with the list of open pages not on some tab bar but in the Window menu. Fairly close / was probably a good choice in times of 640x480.
Well, UI integration of new ones should be more workable (being based on W3C standards might count to some, too...). But in large part - marketing?
You didn't make the point how it deteriorates back, you said "nowadays Iran"
Anyway, what shah did to Iranian people can't be argued at all as better (what, more "western"? The '53 coup specifically threw that into the garbage) than the current islamic regime; relation of which to us is a classic blowback - and mostly this was (and is) a case of some representation, can very much look like it. This is the powerful force which propelled and kept Ayatollah in power. Not very encompassing when it comes to democratic processes (*), especially considering how Iran is one of the most secular places in the Middle East anyway, much more than many of our current so called "allies" there. Don't demonize its population.
This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. For many years, Iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my country, and there is indeed a tumultuous history between us. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. troops and civilians. This history is well known. Rather than remain trapped in the past, I have made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward.
^Barack Obama, recently. (*)Heck, the most fervent denier of the fairly workable amount of democratic values, present in Iran before the 1953 coup, is...current regime of Iran (and its not a new thing). Much stronger denier than the leader quoted above, who ultimately is representative of international opposition to Iran (and if this didn't stop him from saying the above, that should really hint at something)
Please make Randall (after current situation passes) /xkcd forum know, we might have some fun with this ban ;>
Really, in 79 most of the people and culture got washed aside and replaced by "modern Iran"?
Defibrillator also doesn't do much good in actually restarting the heart, at least not like it works in the movies (certainly not with flatline...)
The dispatcher system knows the telephone number, can request more info about it. Or - telecom network actively tracks the locations of mobile phones; it can save that information and attach it to the message just for SMS sent to 911.
The dispatcher system knows the telephone number, can request more info about it. Or - telecom network knows the location of mobile phone; their SMS center can attach and forward the location just for SMS sent to 911.
(and what's that hysteria about "French-dominated ITU"?)
Triangulation (more multilateration, really) in modern cellular networks works via differences in time of arrival of signals. It's almost instant.
Not in times of rotary phones (or generally stationary ones), of which 999 is a legacy.
Wasn't the disappearance resolved?...
#1 browser in Ukraine, exchanging #1 spot with FF in Russian Federation, nearing 50% and far above other browsers in Belarus; generally a very notable share in most of ex Warsaw Pact. Some worldwide stats appear to be underreporting, by focusing on pages most likely to be visited by specific demographics / rarely visited by some others. How Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide by website stats (despite most of its users being in places with expensive data access, certainly frugal about number of pages visited) might help one day, when those people shift to desktops.
Opera addons are at least based on W3C widget specs...
(if you really want speed you'd better not ignore Opera BTW - especially in cases when it really matters (slow machine, slow connection; this contributes to CIS popularity))
Anyway - they have healthy, rising profitability as is (also during the last 3 years)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity