You are jumping ship from PHP because of the high burden of backwards compatibility changes to move to a language that put it's developers through one of the most burdensome version changes in any mainstream language, which 12 years later has not been fully "completed" and even described as a mistake by the lead developer himself? I'm referring of course to Python v2 to v3 shitshow.

As a lead developer of a 17 year old enterprise class application written in PHP, major version upgrades have been a complete non-issue for us. While PHP has its warts, major version backwards compatibility is one place they have done a great job.

Keep up the great work PHP code devs!

Clearly you've never been to Canada. Most places outside of southern BC have 110v unmetered plugs for block heaters in every parking stall. If they didn't they wouldn't have customers in the winter.

Granted it's not EV charging, but it's not a large expense either.

Google "block heater parking lot" for images.

thunderbird has the same problem as firefox, the UI is horribly slow its almost unusable.

I use Thunderbird because its the only real email client in Linux with decent calendar integration that isn't Evolution (which itself has both eaten email and crashed several times to the point where it won't start again without having to clear out all my settings and start fresh).

Thunderbird with IMAP and the lightning extension installed routinely (like 20x per day) locks up for 5-10 seconds and shows wrong messages (or no message) when quickly switching between new emails. If they actually used multiple threads/processes for the UI so it respond to user interaction while doing other things it would be much better.

In a free market, its competition... If your competitor comes up with a one-time vaccine, even if it cost 10x as much, it would render the "one-a-year" guys obsolete overnight.

Of course when collusion is involved, they would just make a gentleman's agreement to not research a one-time vaccine, or keep it behind closed doors until such time as someone outside the agreement figures it out, then magically bring it to market.

Actually, it sounds like a network engineer asking how to better utilize the terrabits of available DOWNSTREAM bandwidth that Amazon has available. Running servers by its very nature primarily uses UPSTREAM bandwidth (serving content), so having people send them loads of data often and rarely reading it I'm sure will do wonders to better utilize that available bandwidth, not to mention backups/archives often happen during non-peak periods its a win-win for Amazon.

I want to own a good Android device, I really do, but its just not quite there yet...

Android 2.2/2.3 I just didn't like one bit and felt very sluggish, unpolished and the upgrade path for Android devices being what it is, I'm not willing to drop $600-700 on a phone that won't upgrade to the latest OS in a year. But when Honeycomb was released I decided to purchase a Xoom... Wow, was that the biggest purchasing mistake I've made in a while. It was complete garbage, I couldn't browse the web for more than 15 mins without the browser crashing, especially when visiting Motorola's own support forum. I kept it as long as I could in case an update was released to fix the problem, but that didn't materializes within the return period.

More recently I was going to purchase an Apple TV but instead grabbed a Pivos Xios that runs Ice Cream Sandwich... So far that has turned out to be another major mistake. The UI is garbage for the TV, even with the "sense" remote which acts like a mouse (but only works in a limited number of apps). Apps don't scale to the TV size well at all, the fonts are either too small or too big, icons too small or too big, or there is a ton of wasted space. The device itself is stable, but apps crash all the time, especially Netflix and many other video apps and they are all extremely slow to use, it can take 5-10 seconds to see a response just from clicking on something in Netflix. For a box designed to watch movies this is obviously unacceptable... The only exception so far has been Google Play which seems to work flawlessly (and fast), so the capability is there, just the apps are not up to par. Unfortunately I missed my return window on this device, so its likely going to collect dust after I grab an Apple TV.

The Nexus 7 tablet looks nice and the price is definitely right, so I'm likely going to buy one once the local store has them in stock, but being burned several times already, I'm understandably quite skeptical still... It seems like Google has finally got the OS to a fast/stable point with Jelly Bean, its just a matter for the app developers to catch up.

There is no doubt though, in my opinion the Android app quality has yet to compare to the iOS app quality. Sure there are the odd high-budget apps like Angry Birds or something that is virtually identical on either platform, but the apps I use on a regular basis on my iPhone have no equivalent on Android yet.

You can't fault me for not trying, I own an iPhone and iPad because they just work and they have everything I need, but I hate many of the things Apple does and I would like nothing more than to see them fail, but I'm just not willing to give up my iPhone/iPad until there something at least equal or better.

I highly doubt they will license another engine given their recent Source Filmmaker work. Thats an impressive piece of technology and I have a hard time seeing them let it all go to waste.

"And we’ve removed plastics wherever possible, in favor of materials that are more highly recyclable, more durable, more efficient and longer lasting. "

Longer lasting materials? Too bad that doesn't include OSX...

Apparently they don't take into account the environmental impact of instantly making millions of devices obsolete in a single software update.

This is flawed thinking, for the following reasons:

- Credit card companies don't actually lend money, its really the bank who puts their name on the card that is lending the money. Credit card companies make money off the transactions that flow over their network.
- When fraud occurs, its usually the merchant who is left holding the bag, not the credit card company or the bank.
- When merchants get left holding the bag, they pass the costs on to you the customer.

Therefore it is your money, because every purchase you make pays for fraud that effected you directly and all the other dumb asses who lose their wallet every other week.

But they can have one is the point. Pretty hard to put a password lock on your wallet or physical credit card. Even the chip&pin system only works for in-person purchases, a virtual wallet could at least work over the internet too.

I tend to not trust big corporations much, but even a few rookie developers can at least make the virtual wallet more secure than a physical wallet. How much more is the real question.

The other nice thing is no waiting for new credit cards in the mail when they do get stolen, you could literally have a new one downloaded to your app (on another phone) the same day its stolen.

Does it matter if its compromised by one person or 10,000? The one person who steals your wallet from your car or off the beach when you're not looking can just as easily provide the information to anyone else anyways.

Lets compare the process in each scenario:

Physical Wallet:
1. Thief steals wallet from car.
2. Thief opens wallet, takes credit cards and starts making purchases at physical stores and online.

Virtual Wallet in Phone:
1. Thief steals phone from car.
2. Thief must prevent any radio signal from reaching the phone to prevent a remote wipe.
3. Thief takes the phone home and starts the "hacking" process to gain access first to the phone (password lock)
4. Thief then must gain access to the presumably encrypted virtual wallet app.

If the encryption is done properly, step 4 would be prohibitively expensive and easily buy the 2-24hours it would take to realize your phone is gone and contact your credit card company.

Not only that, but once enough people are using the virtual wallet, I would imagine they would be able to easily switch to using bluetooth or similar protocol that uses some sort of SSL encryption with pre-exchanged keys to prevent any man-in-the-middle attacks at the POS terminal.

If anything this should be more secure than the RFID credit cards already in everyones wallet up here. The phone shouldn't be transmitting any data until the app is opened and a password is entered. Sure someone could be intercepting the transmission at the checkout of the store, but that risk already exists with existing RFID cards and also with merchants not locking down their POS terminals and subjecting themselves to having them replaced with compromised ones.

We used to use these so called "hard" balls explicitly to throw at people with the intent to hit them. I believe they called it a "game"... Ball tag?

Schools will attempt to ban any and everything that could possibly be fun even if there is no chance of someone getting hurt (trading hockey cards was banned from my elementary school), its ridiculous.