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I switched back to Firefox because it became faster than Chrome (from my user experience, I don't know about tests and whatnot)
Many of these updates are helping them stay fast and haven't resulted in any bloat (yet), so at least from my perspective, great!
Rejecting (multiple times) work that has already been done for you leans much more in the direction of some sort of agenda.
The author wasn't taking a militant stand against someone who simply writes gendered language, but against someone who made a decision to exclude gender-neutral language specifically.
One small tweak I would make is to have the video start playing not when it's in the middle but closer to the top of the page.
Reason is, I find myself distracted by listening to the guys speak before I finish reading the text.
I lived in an apartment where we essentially had a broom handle hanging next to the alarm because it was inevitable, and during Sandy blackout the thing constantly chirped because its landline was disconnected. Not a good experience.
This kind of makes that decision easy I think. The design seems nice, and the fact that it folds is doubly so. In backpacking your limits are in both weight and volume.
I'd like to see some reviews of ruggedness - the main thing I'm concerned about is what happens to the part of my USB cord that's plugged into the unit - it may be designed for high heat, but an average apple plug probably isn't.
The final official transcript, for one, reads like propaganda.
http://i.imgur.com/7zEL7HJ.jpg
Also it's not really new - as others have pointed out people with USB drives have been using these for a while.
I try to buy on GOG even if it's slightly more for games I wish to keep, archive the installer, and be able to revisit years into the future.