Not that Opera doesn't have serious funding... but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this javascript would be more expensive, most of the time
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if (is.explorer) { window.location.href="config/error.htm"; }
It would cut our UI development time by at least half!
It typically comes down to developing the UI once for IE, and once for all others.
the only advantage the gps units had over smartphones is the fact they still worked on trips that take out them out of signal range.
Now most smartphones include actual GPS so that disadvantage has gone away, as per the original poster's comment.
Except that mobile phones at this point do not contain the maps on the phone (none that I know of anyway), so you still need internet connectivity for it to be useful. I have an iPhone from Spain, and I can't use the GPS functionality in the US unless I am connected via WiFi because there is no 3G sharing between AT&T and Movistar in Spain.
..and of course, no sales tax.
You mean "it's easy to not pay sales tax and get away with it".
You are required to pay the sales tax to the local government where you live. The only reason that online retailers don't charge you is because they would need to know and keep up with the tax laws of hundreds or thousands of locations, and set up payments to them. It would be prohibitively complicated.
Hmm, I meant more like analyzing by other means that tasting it...
So we really just need his arm to transfer the droplet from the leg to the testing device. We should be able to send a robot capable of that with much less cost and time. If the first 10 attempts fail, we are still ahead...
And if takes another year or 5 years, it's not really time critical. Unless of course you have a human sitting on the planet waiting for a replacement testing device and a sandwich.
the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out.
Perhaps the roll-over will be the cause of the sun burning out.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky