Am I the only one that thinks it is funny that to prove your point that the stats on android usage can be trusted that you point to results from Google?;-)
I remember reading The Sum Of All Fears in 1993 as my first Clancy book. I couldn't put it down and read it all the way through until 4 am.
Fast forward 20 or so years, and many books by Clancy. Then I started reading his Red Rabbit.
What a horrible book. His whining and rambling about how much worse the coffee is in England than in the US. How horrible the beef in Eastern Europe is as compared to the US. And making the same comments on this, over and over and over and over again.
What a load of drivel it became!
they got hit by events OUTSIDE the plans (quick name me all of the quakes in that region 0.5 points below what they got hit with and greater)
Nice fallacy there.
Just because you and I don't know the names, it doesn't mean that the engineers designing the plant didn't have to take other quakes into account.
Typical such a plant would have to have to be designed to withstand an event with a 1 in 1000 years frequency.
Apple had a system in place for protecting against in-app purchases from the start (there was already a setting for this under Restrictions).
Also, one could simply sign out of their iTunes account before passing the iDevice on to someone else.
However, over time it became apparent that there were people that were not protected sufficiently by this either because they weren't aware of these options or because they weren't aware of the risk. So Apple included an additional protection for this when they updated iOS.
Simply a matter of progressing insight and now the "loophole" has been closed. No need to blame either Apple or the parents.
TFA says the couple plus one child used 299 221 gallons per year (1 132 674.7 liters!!!).
Divided over 365 days a year, that means they went through 3 103 liters per day!
Back in the day, Philips had the slogan "Let's make things better".
However, some of my friends working at the Lighting Division changed that to "LED's make things better":-)
Its odd that Apple released this version quietly. Last time a major point release was available, Steve Jobs was walking down the streets of Cupertino firing a shotgun into the air screaming, [..] followed by USC Trojan band
I guess the anti-phishing feature filtered out the Trojans this time then?;-)
Either get Leopard solid, stable, and most importantly, *fast* before you move onto the next OS (unless Snow Leopard addresses a lot of these issues).
RTF arstechnica A : "it will not contain major OS changes. Instead, the release is heavily focused on performance and nailing down speed and stability."
I DARE any/.ers to say anything bad about the microsoft mouse, or the microsoft sidewinder joystick with real force feedback
Agreed
Obviously MS should be doing hardware
But i disagree here.
The original Xbox sounded like a helicopter taking off in my living room. The Xbox360 however sounds like two helicopters taking off in my living room. Also, remember the Microsoft phone? The Zune? The Microsoft webcam which is so poor on color balance that everyone looks like someone from the Addams Family...
PS: not polite to reply to my own post: another thing is that The Netherlands was neutral in the first world war, and also claimed neutrality here. Even though France and Belgium had already declared war to Germany in 1939.
So when Belgium and France surrendered, they surrendered to a country they themselves were at war with. But when Germany invaded the Netherlands they attacked a country that had invested little in the military since the turn of the century and that explicitly chosen to stay neutral in the conflict.
Actually, The Netherlands only surrendered because the Germans flattened Rotterdam (an unprotected city) by bombarding it unannounced. After that they threatened to do the same to other cities in the country.
The other countries that you mention as having surrendered didn't get the same treatment.
Mozilla wants me to update from 2.0.0.12 to 2.0.0.13. Is there any reason I shouldn't just go to 3.0 Beta 5?
Yes, there is a reason. It is obviously desirable that people don't get automatically upgraded from a stable release branch (2.x), to a beta of the next stable release.
By the way, in about:config, the behavior can be changed by changing the app.update.channel string. In my case i have it set to "nightly". Have a look at the mozilla knowledgebase for a complete overview of the possible update channels.
- change the extension from the adblock xpi to.zip
- unzip the file
- find the file called install.rdf, and change maxVersion for Firefox to 3.1 or something and save the file
- zip the files you just extracted
- change the extension of the zip file back to.xpi
Done. Now you made your add-on compatible with Firefox 3.1. This way you still can have compatibility checking on (for maximum stability) but manually change the one extension you can't live without (for maximum convenience).
Except if you are not in US, then you are screwed. Apple doesn't even "offer" ability to buy non-DRM, so they are out.
Incorrect. Itunes Plus (which has a higher bitrate and drops DRM) is available outside the US as well. Currently only for EMI artist (iirc). These "plus" tracks have the same price as other tracks.
Possibly, but most regular customers will then just look for the next mobile phone that DOES provide their desired feature set. Third party software is something most regular customers never heard about and don't even WANT to hear about.
If Apple wants to limit their devices thus limiting the usefulness to certain people then those will vote with their money. But third party software or hacks are equally unattractive for most people.
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Am I the only one that thinks it is funny that to prove your point that the stats on android usage can be trusted that you point to results from Google? ;-)
I remember reading The Sum Of All Fears in 1993 as my first Clancy book. I couldn't put it down and read it all the way through until 4 am.
Fast forward 20 or so years, and many books by Clancy. Then I started reading his Red Rabbit.
What a horrible book. His whining and rambling about how much worse the coffee is in England than in the US. How horrible the beef in Eastern Europe is as compared to the US. And making the same comments on this, over and over and over and over again. What a load of drivel it became!
Still enjoy playing the Ghost Recon games though.
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Nice fallacy there.
Just because you and I don't know the names, it doesn't mean that the engineers designing the plant didn't have to take other quakes into account.
Typical such a plant would have to have to be designed to withstand an event with a 1 in 1000 years frequency.
Apple had a system in place for protecting against in-app purchases from the start (there was already a setting for this under Restrictions).
Also, one could simply sign out of their iTunes account before passing the iDevice on to someone else.
However, over time it became apparent that there were people that were not protected sufficiently by this either because they weren't aware of these options or because they weren't aware of the risk. So Apple included an additional protection for this when they updated iOS.
Simply a matter of progressing insight and now the "loophole" has been closed. No need to blame either Apple or the parents.
Well, you know how difficult Apple's Legal department can get.... ;-)
Facebook as a way to teach people about World War 2 ;-)
TFA says the couple plus one child used 299 221 gallons per year (1 132 674.7 liters!!!).
Divided over 365 days a year, that means they went through 3 103 liters per day!
Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that they point to a Google translation of a story how Google analytics may be illegal in Germany? ;-)
Apple already released iPhone OS 3.0.1 which fixes this issue.
Back in the day, Philips had the slogan "Let's make things better". :-)
However, some of my friends working at the Lighting Division changed that to "LED's make things better"
Its odd that Apple released this version quietly. Last time a major point release was available, Steve Jobs was walking down the streets of Cupertino firing a shotgun into the air screaming, [..] followed by USC Trojan band
I guess the anti-phishing feature filtered out the Trojans this time then? ;-)
The original Xbox sounded like a helicopter taking off in my living room. The Xbox360 however sounds like two helicopters taking off in my living room. Also, remember the Microsoft phone? The Zune? The Microsoft webcam which is so poor on color balance that everyone looks like someone from the Addams Family...
PS: not polite to reply to my own post: another thing is that The Netherlands was neutral in the first world war, and also claimed neutrality here. Even though France and Belgium had already declared war to Germany in 1939.
So when Belgium and France surrendered, they surrendered to a country they themselves were at war with. But when Germany invaded the Netherlands they attacked a country that had invested little in the military since the turn of the century and that explicitly chosen to stay neutral in the conflict.
Actually, The Netherlands only surrendered because the Germans flattened Rotterdam (an unprotected city) by bombarding it unannounced. After that they threatened to do the same to other cities in the country.
The other countries that you mention as having surrendered didn't get the same treatment.
By the way, in about:config, the behavior can be changed by changing the app.update.channel string. In my case i have it set to "nightly". Have a look at the mozilla knowledgebase for a complete overview of the possible update channels.
- change the extension from the adblock xpi to .zip .xpi
- unzip the file
- find the file called install.rdf, and change maxVersion for Firefox to 3.1 or something and save the file
- zip the files you just extracted
- change the extension of the zip file back to
Done. Now you made your add-on compatible with Firefox 3.1. This way you still can have compatibility checking on (for maximum stability) but manually change the one extension you can't live without (for maximum convenience).
From that site:
" bought to you by Microsoft and Seagate "
Possibly, but most regular customers will then just look for the next mobile phone that DOES provide their desired feature set. Third party software is something most regular customers never heard about and don't even WANT to hear about.
If Apple wants to limit their devices thus limiting the usefulness to certain people then those will vote with their money. But third party software or hacks are equally unattractive for most people.