The reality is that those numbers don't really matter if you already have a website.

You can easily run stats on YOUR OWN WEBSITE and get the browser breakdown that you should be worried about.

For one of my primary sites, all version of IE beat out Firefox or Chrome. When split apart, Firefox and Chrome are 1 and 2, with IE8 coming in third.

And now that I think about it, knowing who is first or second is pretty much irrelevant. What matters is the percentage of users who are still using browser version that suck to support. So really, what I care about is where my IE7 and IE6 usage is, and at what point is it okay for me to walk away from those users.

Even at DirecTV's cheapest currently advertised package ($29.99 for 12 months, free HD DVR), you could purchase eight shows at full price on iTunes (~$45 for a full season in HD). And that is not taking in to consideration the monthly taxes and fees on the DTV service, which could easily cover a Netflix or Hulu Plus subscription. After three months, you are going to start paying for the premiums, which run around the cost of two movie rentals on iTunes per month PER PREMIUM CHANNEL.

And that is just for the first year. Year two, the monthly price goes up, which means you could afford EVEN MORE television and movies if you amortize it out over two years.

Basically, you would be hard pressed to spend more money on AppleTV than DirecTV. I know this, because I made the switch myself. We have eight shows, a Netflix account, and get the locals using a $50 HD Over The Air antenna. Haven't been happier, and are saving a ton.

I don't mean to sound like a dick, but as someone who makes web-based geospatial apps for a living, this is one of the worst things I have ever seen.

Half the zooms don't make sense (US zooms all the way out, UK zooms to all of Europe), they have data listed in the drop downs that doesn't actually exist (July 2012), the popups tell you nothing (Country: Whatever, colored in blue, but not clickable), and to top it all of, the "larger" version has no way to access any of the data (no data selection, no zoom levels).

For me, it is less the mpg and more the range of one tank of gas, and how big the tank is. I know it is technically just a different way to look at the same problem, but I feel it shows the impact more quickly.

For instance, my boss was telling me yesterday that his Prius goes 500+ miles on one tank, and the tank is about 10 gallons.

My Accord goes about 400 miles on an 18 gallon tank.

So not only can he go farther on one tank than I can, but I am going to pay almost double what he is paying at the pump.

That made such a huge impact on me yesterday that I have started shopping for a Prius, just to see how everything would work out from a payment standpoint.

Personally, I am looking forward to checking out this map during hurricane season. This map is the number one thing I am going back to when a hurricane strikes land here in the US.

I know this will sound snide, but you obviously do not have a wife, or if you do, she is a geek like you.

While your setup doesn't present any problem for you or probably me, for any non-technical folks in the household that want to use the system, remembering to use this at these points but not for this other thing, then you have to do X+Y+Z...it is impossible for them to remember all the details.

XBMC - and all the other 10ft interfaces - theoretically solve this problem. One interface to bind them all, if you pardon the paraphrase.

Of course, my experience is that none of them can do 100% of the things I and my wife would like them to do, so we are still using a fractured system, much to her dislike (and she lets me know about it every time she has trouble). I am hoping that Eden solves this.

I am inclined to view you as turning a blind eye to something that is pretty obvious.

I read (and reread) Tolkien several times in middle school, slowly reading them less in high school, and then not again since. The last time started them, I realized just how...wordy these books are. I wouldn't assume that it requires some high level of reading comprehension. In fact, I think it takes a high level of reading tenacity. The last few times I found myself skipping over pages of text which didn't really drive the overall narrative.

I would have to agree with someone above me who said that what Tolkien did best was build worlds. And to do that, you need a lot of words that aren't necessarily directly related to the ongoing plot. For those folks who enjoy rich and deep worlds, then you probably love Tolkien. But for those of us who prefer to focus more on what is happening than where, Tolkien can get pretty old, pretty quick.

Have you not seen OnLive? Cloud-based gaming with no latency. They even have aa app that lets you play console games in the cloud from your iPad.

I don't know a lot about the subject, but were the tides really that important in helping salt water fish evolve in to fresh water amphibians? Because if not, then Wonda's point still stands.

While correct, it is foolish on their part.

I am a fan of Bad Lip Reading, and I had watched this video and the song he created. Out of curiosity, I checked out the original video and song, and ended up finding that I liked it as much as the parody. I was even thinking about adding it to a playlist to see if it would be worth buying in the future.

So UMG did nothing other than upload the original video to YouTube, and suddenly they found themselves with a potential new customer because of it. I have noticed the comments on a lot of the original music videos that BLR parodies saying that the only reason that person was here was because they saw the BLR version and were curious.

This is positive viral marketing, all without having to do anything at all, and they are ruining that goodwill by forcing a take down.

You are making the assumption that after eliminating these offices, Mr. Paul would then turn around and and lower the tax rate to allow US citizens to keep that money that is no longer needed. But if taxes stay the same, then I would still be paying the same amount, but be getting less service in return. Like Netflix.

You are also making the assumption that private industry would provide these services at a similar cost as the government does. NOAA costs each taxpayer in the US roughly $33.50 a year. Do you honestly think you will be able to purchase weather forecasts from a private company for that little? Not to mention that weather forecasts are only part of what NOAA does. I can't even name a service that I receive now that I get for $3 a month.

NOAA runs a number of satellites that monitor weather conditions for the US. Are you stating that you think it makes more sense for each state to build, launch, and maintain their own weather satellite?

With you except for numbers 3 and 5.

I might be not understanding #3, but generally, the feds DO pay for a contractors benefits. They pay for everything the contracting company is going to offer the employee, plus a fee on top of that. Now, there is the long term benefit in that the federal government is not responsible for retirement and health care for these workers when they retire. But in the daily (or annual) grind, the feds are paying benefits to contractors.

As for #5, assuming you are considering the "full time staff" actual feds, then you are way off base. It is nearly impossible to eliminate a fed that isn't performing as well as their contract brethren, especially one that has a lot of years in the system. And Lord help you if you if one of those feds is a vet.

Bullshit. I don't know anyone who is going to buy Amazon books over a brick and mortar over what would be a couple of dimes in sales tax. If that were true, then B&N would be out of business as well. Borders is out of business because their executives made poor business decisions, end of story.

I am designing a website right now, and I need it to look a certain way when it prints. I am using a print stylesheet to optimize the format for printing.

In Firefox and IE, checking the format is as simple as print preview. I have yet to test it in Chrome, because I am going to have to actually print it to see what it looks like, and then every time I make an adjustment, which could be quite a bit of paper.

The irony is that I usually test in Chrome first for screen. But because no print preview, I have been using FF as my primary. It doesn't even need to be core - make it an extension.