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Comment Re:Translated (Score 1) 188

"Mr Musk said that the cost of producing the current European rocket would kill it as a commercial entity."
Translates as "Give us a subsidy US military or we can't keep competing on price!"

Fairly sure by "it" he means the Ariane, not SpaceX. I.e. the Ariane is too expensive to be cost-effective.

Comment Re:along those lines: Fade to Black... (Score 2) 228

Yes and no. You cannot travel through space faster than light. However, space can expand at any speed it wants to. Then end result is that distance between start and finish increases, making it look like faster than light travel (if you'd take the distance at the end divided by the time taken). However, at no time during the travel between start and finish can the object travel faster than the speed of light. (If you'd take the distance at the start divided by the time taken, the object will seem to have travelled slower than it actually did.)

Comment Re:I've been using it since the beginning... (Score 1) 302

Same here. One of the things I like is the "Allow Cookies From This Site" option. I can just disable all cookies, and if I want to allow a site to set cookies, it's in the menu. In Firefox I have to go to options, and then either copy/paste or type in the domain name. There's dozens of things like that.

I'm at 2.0.14, mostly because the Gecko engine (as seen in Firefox) had a issue where it rendered images incorrectly (wrong colors, seems to be fixed now). I was also a bit afraid they'd add things to make it more like Firefox. From this thread I guess I should be safe to upgrade it \o/

Comment Re:In coming calls are free in India. (Score 2) 177

Because more often than not it's the caller who wants to contact you. Since they're the one in need of the product, why should someone have to pay the price?

Especially for texts (which you can't, AFAIK, refuse), it's downright maddening to consider the idea that someone else could charge you for capacity you don't want to use.

Comment Re:It's ugly (Score 1) 181

They are REALLY EASY to share though. You can't do that so easy with a HTML file with embedded image. If it's so popular, maybe we should design an image file format it that makes the text parseable by browser and search engine. Though really, who'd go through the trouble to use that?

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