Can you get hit with a DUI without a blood test result in the U.S.?
Breathalysers pretty much only give largely inaccurate results when you still have alcohol residue in your throat or mouth. If you rinse out or wait a moment, they'll probably fall in line with blood tests.
Finnish telecoms have mostly abandoned tying the phone to a mobile plan, just a few years after they were given that right by law. My personal guess as to why, is that they want to offer longer financing plans than the maximum of 24 months allowed for carrier-locked phones – with plans up to 36 months common.
Apparently the seller of an expensive phone like iPhone gets a decent chunk of money at market prices, because it's common for carriers not to take any interest with their financing plans – i.e. the phones costs the same bought upfront as they do over 36 monthly payments. The phone itself is in no way locked to any specific network.
There's certainly no reason to pass something (big) by value if you only need to look at it, but not copy. However, if you're going to copy the object in any case, you should do it right-away so that the caller my move their copy to you if they don't need one any more.
I'm guessing this detection is for those cases where the passed-by-ref value is always copied.
It's an endless battle with different peripherals – you are never going to support every obscure device with community backing, when none of the developers have even heard of your gadget, much less owned it.
When you have simpler needs, like me – you want to run Linux software on a desktop computer that's comprised of well-known, widely used and well-supported hardware, desktop Linux with Fedora Core “just worked” over twelve years ago. (NVIDIA's proprietary drivers never came and never will come by default, but I considered that less a requirement when you had to install them yourself on Windows XP, too. The drivers were already back then top notch.) I wasn't that good with computers back then, and my biggest gripe, by far, were the fonts that didn't look like the pixelated fonts I'd grown used to with Windows'.
The Flash-based player would do exactly the same (with a slight delay) even if it wasn't as obvious from the UI.
To prevent YouTube from switching sources when resizing the content, select a specific quality first (it defaults to “Auto”). I wouldn't be surprised if there were browser extensions that automatically do this (e.g. always choose the highest quality).
A static workspace where you prefer to look downwards on a relatively small monitor on level with the keyboard, to a properly placed desktop monitor and accessories placed where they are physically convenient to use? What does your work consist of, exactly – not using the computer?
Part of the problem are the iOS design guidelines, which place the “back” button in the top-left corner (or did so in the past). A larger screen avoids the feeling of crowdedness, at the expense of reachability. If you rarely need to access the top part of your screen, the trade-off is usually at least acceptable if not worthwhile – less so with many iOS applications.
I mostly use my smart phone to browse the web, and I think one of the things Windows Phone got right was to place the navigation bar on the bottom (although I don't use Windows Phone, my phone does the same). Thus, unless there are controls at the absolute top of the page, I don't have a problem reaching anything (most native apps on my phone support gestures, which rely less on absolute finger placement).
I'd appreciate details of CPU consumption as well. Minute amounts of memory are of no concern for many people, but everyone prefers snappier browsing, every time.
I was aware of the contents of the front page, having skimmed it again today (and read more carefully before, although with little interest for Chromium extensions). I'm only interested in performance characteristics in Firefox, but am unlikely to test this myself before it arrives in AMO.
edit: vocabulary