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Comment Re:A release every 6 weeks is really stupid (Score 1) 599

or do it the way chrome does it... put less emphasis on version. Sure, they have version numbers, but chrome auto-updates. Ask me at any time what version I'm using and I'll have to go hit chrome:about to tell you.

I can tell you that I use the dev-channel build. And I keep canary running as well so I can test session stuff on the same website without them crashing over each other.

And for the curious, I'm running 14.0.803.0 dev-m and canary is only slightly further along at 14.0.804.0 canary

Comment stats need another dimension (Score 1) 220

Ok, look I'm an iphone user. Love it. Have the original and waiting to get the next one. But I'm not putting too much into this little survey.

I need to see the manufacturer listed here before I believe this is any more than propoganda. If it turns out that each manuf. has about the same average fault rate, then ok, there's a problem. But if it turns out that HTC comes out to 2% and Moto is at 25% then I'd say that it's not the OS, but the manuf. that's the problem.

And then going further, how does a manufacturer's android parts compare to their non android part. What if LG has a average fail of 15% on android smartphones but only 5% on dumbphones.

Then what about those who make win7 and android phones? How does THAT compare? Samsung? HTC? LG?

Comment Re:Restore from backup? (Score 1) 405

And you assume a level of service that includes the company doing their backups. Many hosting providers offer this as an option. Particularly when it's not shared hosting. When I was using offsite dedicated hosting, I didn't use their backups. I backed it up myself to my office.

Comment Re:Good -- Ethanol's a Joke Anyway (Score 1) 395

My suggestion, stay away from corn. It's actually one of the harder plants to grow on a small scale. Their root system sucks. If you live anywhere with lots of rain the erosion will be bad and every time it rains you have to go prop them up with new dirt. Unless you know your pesticides already, you're going to get worms. Use seven, it will help. When the stalks are 0-6" you need to watch for cutter worms, deer and rabbits. When they're a little taller, less worms, still deer and rabbits.

If you want something that's just GOING to grow, and you can't do wrong, try okra. Also, cucumber and squash are nearly impossible to do wrong. Oh, and green onions.

Comment Re:Good -- Ethanol's a Joke Anyway (Score 1) 395

Don't get me started on grass right now. Ours is nearly dead. We're having drought conditions this year. I've cut my grass exactly twice so far this year. Normally in Mobile you'd start sometime and march and cut weekly until September.

It's funny, the grass is wanting water so bad, I put a sprinkler out in one spot for about an hour. The next day I had a perfectly round green spot in a brown dead yard. In a week, it had grown as was a tall spot needing cutting. Looks like aliens were making really bad crop circles. I put out one of those drip hoses in a spiral, and now I have a green spiral growing in the yard.

Comment Re:Good -- Ethanol's a Joke Anyway (Score 5, Informative) 395

It's not just a choice based on how it's manufactured... I'd dare to argue that we don't have as much area to grow sugar cane as brazil. It's a tropical plant. It needs somewhere north of 125cm/year of rainfall to grow, high humidity and lots of sun. Unfortunately most of our agriculture land does not support those conditions. Brazil is MADE for cane. Where we grow stuff, it's made for corn, and maybe switchgrass? Compare Iowa/nebraska, indiana, illinois, where corn is grown, to Louisiana, Florida and Hawaii, where we can grow cane. Add to that, hawaii is tiny, florida and Louisiana have a lot of unaccessable swamp, and that florida land prices are at a premium.

http://www.tangail.110mb.com/sugar.php production amounts
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USLA0231 - AVG rainfall/temp of US States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Brazil
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Iowa/average-annual-temperatures.php - Iowa average Temp - high 50s, low 60s
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Louisiana/average-annual-temperatures.php - Louisiana avg temp high 80s

Comment Re:Dreamweaver (Score 1) 545

Dreamweaver was never homesite. At one point they even shipped together, along with another css Editor. I think this was around DW MX. They didn't have CSS support or very good color coding or ASP/PHP/CF support, so they bundled a CSS editor, TopStyle, and Homesite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_HomeSite

But anyway, yeah, I'm still using dreamweaver too. I spend a lot of time in code view, but I don't see any point in hand writing a bunch of CSS or tables, or hrefs or whatever.

Plus I love the templates. It's a great solution for a low page site as opposed to using a template engine like smarty, or a CMS.

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