The cool thing about it is how close it is, not it's relative uniqueness or comparison to an arbitrary group.
Here, and now we know - fairly nearby, we have a very interesting baby star that we can study closely. That's neat.

"What's xpi? Is that a new Windows?"

No atmosphere = no natural disasters my ass.

Because companies that pay us to do these things care an awful lot about how their site looks to the most amount of people. Then again, they hire people for "SEO," so it's not like they know what they're talking about. But who's going to tell them that?

Yeah, pretty much. I don't expect anything to happen, but it's a lot of changes that bring some percentage of the prior userbase along to the new version. Now we'll have more people spread out among version numbers (albeit arbritrary). It's happening fast enough that a security mistake in one of the many versions gone by between then and now could pop up eventually, meaning we need to (for example) tailor our scripts around one of them.

But again, yeah I hear ya, probably nothing to actually be concerned about.

As a web designer, they're turning my hair white with all these versions. Not so much that we need worry about things becoming incompatible, etc. but it's spreading out the userbase, which is just inherently more difficult to ensure cross-version identicality.

It's Sprint's network, which roams onto the Verizon network. As a subscriber, I can tell you there's few places I can't get data from.

Yep, exactly. Why the hell does Swype, for one, need to know who is calling me, from which number?
It pisses me off that good programs are conditional on compromising your own privacy. If only society were more discerning with what they agree to, these things wouldn't be so rampant. It's there because we accept it.

Again, leaving Detroit in the dust. Innovation has always been the key to success... when did we get so tired of it?