Comment Re:USA is obligated to...well, not much (Score 1) 498
Uh... They do have gas. In Crimea. See http://www.reuters.com/article...
Uh... They do have gas. In Crimea. See http://www.reuters.com/article...
Assuming the extension works on Chrome on iOS. Which it may not, since that uses a fairly different architecture and rendering engine from Chrome on other platforms...
For what it's worth, "millions of dollars" is a pretty low bar. A million dollars in the US will get you _maybe_ 5 person-years worth of work from anyone at all competent (using the normal rule of thumb that an employees cost to the employer is about 2x salary once you take into account benefits, employer taxes, equipment, office space, etc).
So 10 million dollars will get you a 10 years worth of work from 5 developers. As an example, the PyPy project is 10 years old....
For JS, between the various browser vendors, the right number is probably closer to 300-500 person-years (see https://news.ycombinator.com/i... for an attempted breakdown). Figure $100 million as a low estimate. Chances are, the people involved are being paid more than $100k a year, so adjust the estimate up accordingly...
The other option is to review updates to extensions before pushing them out to users. That's what Mozilla does with Firefox extensions.
Because most of the packages that do something useful involve interaction with the OS.
Sandboxing the python runtime, say, means breaking most of the packages python developers take for granted, no?
It depends.
Once you're in steady state, and if you don't use workers and don't use the new parallel processing primitives people are proposing for JS, you're right.
But during JIT warmup, and any time you have to JIT a new function or new codepath it matters because on multicore hardware you can do background compilation.
Mozilla fully supports single-line flexbox (that is, flexbox in which the child flex items are all layed out in a single row or column), which is what most flexbox use cases want, and has for a while.
What's missing is support for multiline flexbox.
As far as I know, in Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, Poland, so far.
FirefoxOS performs a lot better on devices at that price point than Android does.
The target audience is people who don't have a smartphone yet, most probably because they can't afford to pay for a $500 phone. Which is most people in the world, so far.
Are you in a market where it's available in stores? The marketing has mostly focused on those markets, obviously.
That said, the launch was covered on Slashdot back in July: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/07/09/1414232/mozilla-launches-firefox-os-devices-in-stores-opens-up-app-payments and several other articles, as well as other tech press. No non-tech-focused marketing in the US so far, since it's not like you can buy one of these in a store in the US right now...
Noise reduction is great. And airlines have no problem with you wearing headphones, except during takeoff and landing. Every single airline I've ever dealt with will ask you to remove headphones then, to make sue you can in fact hear announcements.
This has nothing to do with electronics and everything to do with them needing you to be able to hear directions clearly in an emergency.
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