If the (admittedly stupid) last sentence of the submission hadn't been present, would you still be complaining? They're improving the speed of js by doing some interesting stuff - what's wrong with that?
Also, my (mostly) hydropower-sourced electricity here in Seattle is billed at 4.75 cents per kWh.
Renewable is going nowhere until they're at parity.
No amount of greenwashing and tree hugging circlejerking will change the fundamental economics of this.
The problem here is you're not comparing apples to apples. The 'cost' of fossil fuels doesn't include environmental cleanup that isn't necessary with renewables. It also doesn't take into account the real cost - when you take out all the tax incentives for fossil fuels, the math becomes quite different.
Also, the cost of fossil fuels will continue to go up due to environmental laws and more difficult to process sources (like tar sands), fighting unnecessary wars to secure foreign oil sources; meanwhile, while the cost of renewable technology keeps going down.
I just got back from watching the simulcast, and it was so fantastic, I can hardly see straight!
"Inhaler!"
My favorites: The "War Doctor", the Brigadier's daughter, Dr Who - King of England(!), Gallifrey Stands!, and my VERY favorite, the "Curator". Holy crap, I wasn't expecting the Curator!
Honestly, I'd be happy with just a C variant with built-in string support.
Doesn't D have that?
I have a:
TRS-80 model III
2 Commodore 64s
Mac SE/30
I'm proud of my little collection. I wish I could find a PET.
I've got:
Tandy Model 102 (new in box!)
Tandy CoCo 3 (new in box!)
2 Commodore 64s
Commodore 64C
Commodore Amiga 1000
Apple
I have a TI PEB waiting for a TI 99/4a to connect it to.
Still haven't decided on which old Atari I want. Probably an 800.
I'd *love* to get a working IMSAI 8080, but I can't justify the kind of money that purchase would require.
Too dumb to use AdBlock Plus, also too dumb to hide that fact. #epicfail
That's because far too many Americans are still too busy crowing about how they live in the number one country in the world to realize that they aren't anywhere near as free as they ought to be and that overall the dial is moving in the wrong direction. You can't fix a problem you won't acknowledge.
We're number one in denial!
WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
You don't seem to recognize the type of shit that has hit the fan that I'm referring to. Unfortunately, it's the kind that small arms or hidey holes won't help with. I'm referring to problems like gerrymandering, Citizens United, the gutting of parts of the Voting Rights Act, etc. While civilization hasn't, for the most part, fallen, the Republic certainly has.
I believe you've prepared (prepared well, mind you) for the wrong scenario.
IMO, of course.
The shit has already hit the fan; it's just not the apocalypse that preppers were worried about, or even recognize.
Are these specific places? Are there any of them in cities/countries you've not lived in? If that's the case, I'd take the opportunity to live someplace I haven't before (assuming it was an interesting-sounding place), and use it as a base for tourism on the cheap while the opportunity lasts.
You might also think about the tax implications of one place over another.
It's most likely a corrupted profile. I heard they were working on a profile cleaner feature, but I don't know if it ever got released or not. I'd backup your Firefox with MozBackup, then run the standalone installer and hope it fixes it. If not, reinstall the old version and restore via MozBackup.
And somehow we geeks expect people like our parents and non-technical people to be able to navigate this kind of thing.
I maintain mission-critical enterprise software, and that sounds like a pain in the ass to me. Your average user is going to have no frigging idea what any of that means and give up and go back to IE.
Yup.
You're never, ever, going to get me to fight on the side of Firefox on that kind of thing.
:)
LOL, but now I still need to figure out how the hell to upgrade from 9.0.1, which seems to be proving quite annoying. The built in mechanism seems useless.
It's most likely a corrupted profile. I heard they were working on a profile cleaner feature, but I don't know if it ever got released or not. I'd backup your Firefox with MozBackup, then run the standalone installer and hope it fixes it. If not, reinstall the old version and restore via MozBackup.
Ahh, the Firefox user equivalent to the IE user still using IE 6. We (the web dev community, in general) are going to leave you behind, so don't complain if things don't work right.
In fairness, Firefox version numbers have become meaningless to many of us over the last few years unless you pay really close attention.
I'm apparently running 9.0.1, but when I tell it to apply it's update it just restarts and doesn't actually do anything and leaves me with the exact same "Apply update" button in the help > about.
So I have no idea of what version I'm running in relation to anything else, don't seem to get updates when I tell it to, and have no trust in a piece of software which auto-updates itself quietly behind the scenes and do not want that.
So if the goal was to make something less confusing and easier to use and keep track of
You're never, ever, going to get me to fight on the side of Firefox on that kind of thing.
My only concern is people deliberately not keeping up with the times; it harms everyone. IE 6 held those of us in the industry back for FAR too long; we're just now beginning to catch up in being able to implement modern web standards. We just dropped IE 7 support at work a month ago. *sigh*
Feel free to use Chrome if you want.
I'm just saying that the industry can't keep supporting Model Ts on the Information Superhighway.
I understand and generally agree with your comment, but new and/or trendy doesn't always mean "better", even if the Firefox developers want it to and/or think it does.
"New and/or trendy"? Implementing support for updated web standards is not the same as being 'trendy', and that's what the concern here is. Ignore the trendy nonsense as you will, but you really WANT support for web standards.
You can't take damsel here now.
