It also depends on the platform. While I use Chrome*, it definitely uses more CPU than Firefox, which leads to faster battery drain. It's especially problematic on eBay, for some reason. When the next version of OS X comes out, I'll probably switch back to Safari for the power savings alone.
*I use Chrome for the tab/bookmark sync with my iPhone, as there's no iOS version of Firefox. I don't use Safari because I also have a Windows box and want sync there, too.
Mod up or Down? Frankly, it's a good law and I would like to see it implemented nation wide.
And how do you propose to enforce it? What's stopping someone from buying multiple, smaller drinks? (Hint: Nothing. Even if you implement a max soda purchase limit per customer, they can always go to another shop and get more there. It really is a completely idiotic law of the highest order.)
I don't think people should drink 64oz sodas, but I also don't think it's any of my damn business, and I have no right to dictate what people drink. I say this as a teetotaler who also hasn't had soda or caffeine in almost 10 years.
I recently read a book (A Deepness in the Sky) that used kiloseconds, megaseconds, etc. instead of hours and minutes. It was pretty interesting, and by the end of it, I had a pretty good grasp of the relative time intervals.
If that's their goal, it seems like an odd way to go about it. "Hey, look at our rich history of codebreaking!" does a poor job of distracting me from PRISM, since one of my concerns is that the NSA may be able to break the encryption used in various cloud services. Releasing such a document only serves to reinforce the idea that the NSA has been breaking codes for a long, long time before PRISM ever existed, and that is an uncomfortable thought, given the recent debacle.
If, on the other hand, the headline said something along the lines of "NSA declassifies secret SPCA donation efforts," then it would feel a whole lot more like a distraction.
Does it come with the dongle? If not, then you can't include that in your comparison. Not only does Apple offer both USB and Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters, you can also use any off-brand adapter you want. If you do want to include it, then the Air also offers HDMI, DVI, and VGA via dongles.
Chalk it up to people being outraged because they want to be outraged. Personally, it reminded me of a trip to the dentist. "It'll all be over soon," they say, while gouging my teeth and gums.
Of course, now I can't stop thinking of how that can be a metaphor.
The thing about MUDs were, it was very up front about your options: Go North, Go West, or Get Eaten By Grue. Modern MMOs try to sell themselves as "fully immersive", but just try running out of the battlefield area once... flashing red lights and your character either explodes, or magically teleports. Very realistic... I know that when I make a wrong turn in my car, if I don't make a u-turn in the next 60 seconds, my car explodes and the police are sent out to pick up little bits of me splattered all over the roadway and other drivers.
What games actually do this? The two I've played (WoW and SWTOR) didn't.
I know a lot of people who have both a (non-Windows) smartphone and tablet, but of those people, all of them also have a Windows PC. I have to wonder if these studies take that into account.
Hating of ET has become popular in recent years. Honestly, though, it's neither the worst game ever, nor even the worst game on the 2600.* It was even one of the best-selling 2600 games at 1.5 million copies--unfortunately, Atari produced somewhere around 5 million copies. That, combined with the high cost of licensing it, made for significant losses.
I'm posting from Opera Next now. Stash appears to be a better-looking version of Safari's "Reading List" feature. I actually like it. In fact, I like the browser in general. It has had a nice facelift, with Speed Dial getting new features, and Discover actually seems quite nice. Unfortunately, it also has some annoyances. It doesn't play nicely with some custom Windows color schemes; my black window chrome makes the New Tab button invisible and blends in with inactive tabs too much. It also seems like they've hidden or removed certain settings, which is rather obnoxious (I can't figure out how to get rid of the Google search on the Speed Dial. I already have an integrated address bar, so why do I need that?)
My brother-in-law is a nurse. He says that the overwhelming majority of his patients are in the hospital due to poor lifestyle choices, with obesity being the most common cause of the illness. Naturally, some people are obese due to something outside of their control, but not most. I can see it being frustrating helping a patient who wouldn't be there if they'd just done a better job taking care of themselves.
Furthermore, it's my understanding that providing care to a skinny person is easier than giving it to an obese person for a number of reasons. Combine that with the fact that we're essentially programmed to prefer skinny people, and it's obvious that there would be a bias.
Does that mean that I think obese people should receive subpar treatment? Hell no. You signed up for the job, now go and do it. I just get tired of studies that confirm something everyone already knows.
The Gamecube was actually more powerful than the PS2, the market leader. And it had some damn good games and a good controller, too.
The problem that Nintendo has is that publishers like to target the largest audience, and Nintendo's use of non-standard controls make it hard to justify making a game exclusively for the Wii (U) when it won't get as many sales as making it for Sony and Microsoft. What you wind up with is games with tacked-on motion (or tablet) controls. It's a different story in the handheld front, though; with Nintendo being so dominant there, developers are more likely to experiment with the dual screens and touchscreen. (Then they forget that 10% of the population is left-handed and don't make sure their games actually work for lefties.)
Because the new console can often improve the visuals or load times of the old games. The original PS3 upscaled everything to 1080p, which was nice. Also, it let you create unlimited virtual memory cards, which was a godsend after coming from the PS2. Finally, having backwards compatibility means one less thing that needs to be hooked up all the time.
Is that some or all printers? I can't imagine your garden variety inkjets from Office Max have such a chip; such a counterfeit would be obvious even to a child.
There are tons of deterrents in place against murder, but people still do it every day. Criminals are criminals, and someone sick enough to want to murder someone isn't going to care a whole lot that their tool of choice is illegal.
For my self, I'm pro gun rights. If we could snap our fingers and get rid of all the guns in the world, I would support it. But since that isn't the case, (to paraphrase a quote above me) my rights shouldn't be taken away because a very small percentage of people can't handle them.
Every once in a while, I go and evaluate all of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE). I just finished a several-month evaluation of Firefox. While it is very good, you're right--it's just not as good as Chrome. The Mac version has a number of integration problems (doesn't use system scrollbars or rubberbanding, for example), Mac and Windows both have sync issues (constantly telling me it can't sync; also a draconic requirement to enable sync on various devices), and the lack of the omnibar all make it just less fun to use than Chrome.
Firefox OS is neat and all, but does anyone expect it to do, well, anything? I might expect such a phone for free, if they also gave me a free data plan and let me continue using my current phone. They need to focus on their browser or they'll cede more ground to Google.
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It's not 64-bit on Windows? I'm surprised; it is on the Mac (according to Activity Monitor).
What browsers don't have backspace == back? I use it all the time (intentionally), and I've never noticed any browser not implementing it.
It also depends on the platform. While I use Chrome*, it definitely uses more CPU than Firefox, which leads to faster battery drain. It's especially problematic on eBay, for some reason. When the next version of OS X comes out, I'll probably switch back to Safari for the power savings alone.
*I use Chrome for the tab/bookmark sync with my iPhone, as there's no iOS version of Firefox. I don't use Safari because I also have a Windows box and want sync there, too.
iPhones don't turn themselves on if you have an alarm set. Just turn the phone off.
(There are other reasons iPhones should have removable batteries, though.)
That sounds similar to the iPhone's "do not disturb" mode, though slightly more advanced (the iPhone only lets you set one such schedule).
Mod up or Down? Frankly, it's a good law and I would like to see it implemented nation wide.
And how do you propose to enforce it? What's stopping someone from buying multiple, smaller drinks? (Hint: Nothing. Even if you implement a max soda purchase limit per customer, they can always go to another shop and get more there. It really is a completely idiotic law of the highest order.)
I don't think people should drink 64oz sodas, but I also don't think it's any of my damn business, and I have no right to dictate what people drink. I say this as a teetotaler who also hasn't had soda or caffeine in almost 10 years.
I recently read a book (A Deepness in the Sky) that used kiloseconds, megaseconds, etc. instead of hours and minutes. It was pretty interesting, and by the end of it, I had a pretty good grasp of the relative time intervals.
If that's their goal, it seems like an odd way to go about it. "Hey, look at our rich history of codebreaking!" does a poor job of distracting me from PRISM, since one of my concerns is that the NSA may be able to break the encryption used in various cloud services. Releasing such a document only serves to reinforce the idea that the NSA has been breaking codes for a long, long time before PRISM ever existed, and that is an uncomfortable thought, given the recent debacle.
If, on the other hand, the headline said something along the lines of "NSA declassifies secret SPCA donation efforts," then it would feel a whole lot more like a distraction.
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Does it come with the dongle? If not, then you can't include that in your comparison. Not only does Apple offer both USB and Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters, you can also use any off-brand adapter you want. If you do want to include it, then the Air also offers HDMI, DVI, and VGA via dongles.
I've used an Apple laptop (exclusively) for years, so I have to ask--are power adapters standardized on PCs?
As an aside, I love the Magsafe adapter. It's so much better than any other adapter I've used.
It's not like an LED must have WiFi to work. It's still an increase in power required over "dumb" LEDs.
Chalk it up to people being outraged because they want to be outraged. Personally, it reminded me of a trip to the dentist. "It'll all be over soon," they say, while gouging my teeth and gums.
Of course, now I can't stop thinking of how that can be a metaphor.
EA, of course, is canceling the online pass thing.
The thing about MUDs were, it was very up front about your options: Go North, Go West, or Get Eaten By Grue. Modern MMOs try to sell themselves as "fully immersive", but just try running out of the battlefield area once... flashing red lights and your character either explodes, or magically teleports. Very realistic... I know that when I make a wrong turn in my car, if I don't make a u-turn in the next 60 seconds, my car explodes and the police are sent out to pick up little bits of me splattered all over the roadway and other drivers.
What games actually do this? The two I've played (WoW and SWTOR) didn't.
I know a lot of people who have both a (non-Windows) smartphone and tablet, but of those people, all of them also have a Windows PC. I have to wonder if these studies take that into account.
Hating of ET has become popular in recent years. Honestly, though, it's neither the worst game ever, nor even the worst game on the 2600.* It was even one of the best-selling 2600 games at 1.5 million copies--unfortunately, Atari produced somewhere around 5 million copies. That, combined with the high cost of licensing it, made for significant losses.
*I actually enjoy it somewhat.
Opera has been free for a long time now. Youtube has HTML 5 support.
I'm posting from Opera Next now. Stash appears to be a better-looking version of Safari's "Reading List" feature. I actually like it. In fact, I like the browser in general. It has had a nice facelift, with Speed Dial getting new features, and Discover actually seems quite nice. Unfortunately, it also has some annoyances. It doesn't play nicely with some custom Windows color schemes; my black window chrome makes the New Tab button invisible and blends in with inactive tabs too much. It also seems like they've hidden or removed certain settings, which is rather obnoxious (I can't figure out how to get rid of the Google search on the Speed Dial. I already have an integrated address bar, so why do I need that?)
From the linked download page, it looks like it's now called "Off-Road".
My brother-in-law is a nurse. He says that the overwhelming majority of his patients are in the hospital due to poor lifestyle choices, with obesity being the most common cause of the illness. Naturally, some people are obese due to something outside of their control, but not most. I can see it being frustrating helping a patient who wouldn't be there if they'd just done a better job taking care of themselves.
Furthermore, it's my understanding that providing care to a skinny person is easier than giving it to an obese person for a number of reasons. Combine that with the fact that we're essentially programmed to prefer skinny people, and it's obvious that there would be a bias.
Does that mean that I think obese people should receive subpar treatment? Hell no. You signed up for the job, now go and do it. I just get tired of studies that confirm something everyone already knows.
The Gamecube was actually more powerful than the PS2, the market leader. And it had some damn good games and a good controller, too.
The problem that Nintendo has is that publishers like to target the largest audience, and Nintendo's use of non-standard controls make it hard to justify making a game exclusively for the Wii (U) when it won't get as many sales as making it for Sony and Microsoft. What you wind up with is games with tacked-on motion (or tablet) controls. It's a different story in the handheld front, though; with Nintendo being so dominant there, developers are more likely to experiment with the dual screens and touchscreen. (Then they forget that 10% of the population is left-handed and don't make sure their games actually work for lefties.)
Because the new console can often improve the visuals or load times of the old games. The original PS3 upscaled everything to 1080p, which was nice. Also, it let you create unlimited virtual memory cards, which was a godsend after coming from the PS2. Finally, having backwards compatibility means one less thing that needs to be hooked up all the time.
Is that some or all printers? I can't imagine your garden variety inkjets from Office Max have such a chip; such a counterfeit would be obvious even to a child.
There are tons of deterrents in place against murder, but people still do it every day. Criminals are criminals, and someone sick enough to want to murder someone isn't going to care a whole lot that their tool of choice is illegal.
For my self, I'm pro gun rights. If we could snap our fingers and get rid of all the guns in the world, I would support it. But since that isn't the case, (to paraphrase a quote above me) my rights shouldn't be taken away because a very small percentage of people can't handle them.
Every once in a while, I go and evaluate all of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE). I just finished a several-month evaluation of Firefox. While it is very good, you're right--it's just not as good as Chrome. The Mac version has a number of integration problems (doesn't use system scrollbars or rubberbanding, for example), Mac and Windows both have sync issues (constantly telling me it can't sync; also a draconic requirement to enable sync on various devices), and the lack of the omnibar all make it just less fun to use than Chrome.
Firefox OS is neat and all, but does anyone expect it to do, well, anything? I might expect such a phone for free, if they also gave me a free data plan and let me continue using my current phone. They need to focus on their browser or they'll cede more ground to Google.