Comment Re:NBC did a great job (Score 1) 82
2 *billion* people worldwide watched Usain Bolt win the Mens 100m gold medal live. But none of them did it via an American TV network.
2 *billion* people worldwide watched Usain Bolt win the Mens 100m gold medal live. But none of them did it via an American TV network.
I understand why many people might divide by half
I don't. Dividing by a half is the same as doubling. Maybe those people were dividing by 2 (or dividing in half)?
Personally I say I have "fewer" of things I can have a few of, and "less" of things I can have a little of.
But search.google, mail.google, news.google and code.google isn't redundant. It's maybe *pointless* when users are used to mail.google.com and news.google.com, especially when they still haven't gotten rid of the redundant `www.` from their main URL
You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
On a more helpful note I think "assured" was what you were looking for.
Wave is about as centralised as XMPP was when there was only one XMPP server to connect to.
We've got a front end dev in our web shop with rendering patches accepted into Gecko. It's a rare sight, and it takes the right kind of developer, but it's not unheard of
TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house (in the middle of a large town) if you put my postcode into some of its GPS devices.
That's caused problems both for friends and takeaway delivery drivers
You're talking about cue dots which are actually used more by the commercial providers (ITV and Channel 4), and now generally only for live programmes (i.e. with unpredictable ad break times) with regional opt-outs (i.e. where a bunch of different people need to know about the ad break starting).
There's even a London in Canada which has a River Thames running through it!
NASA satellites use a collection of pictures from multiple flybys stitched together.
The [Russian] satellite [...] took an image [...] capturing the Earth in a single shot with 121-megapixels.
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.