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President George Washington:
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

...

President James Madison
"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us . . . to Govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."

You might be able to make your case better if you didn't use fraudulent quotes.

This is true, the medical name for that type of tourettes is something like corphrala or something.

And here's a really quick google search. %30, not %3

Never attribute to malice what you can explain by stupidity.

Indian search on Windows. Only 10th result is good. First one is Windows Media Player, 2-6 are about Tablet PC with the same page for WinXP for Tablets appearing twice. There are also such wonders of relevance as Windows into the Soul of Satyajit Ray and Windows to the Universe - Jupiter.

Search for Windows at MSN is only marginally better. The poster of the story overlooked that first 4-6 results are "Featured sites", which (as well as "sponsored") is the marketese for "advertisements". Amazon will happily sell to MSN searchers practically everything. Heck, the second result for shit offers that I "Purchase Expensive Shit" on Amazon. I shit you not.

There are other gems at the MSN, like a "featured" result, suggesting that "MSN 8 offers a better browsing experience: Try it free for 60 days." when you search for netscape or gnu.org results starting after 12th position when you search for gnu. The first result, of course, being the famous E-gnu.com African Safari Travel...

MSN (despite their claims to the contrary) is a mix between marketing crap and inferior technology. Thanks, I will pass.

Maybe someone was playing too much Alpha Centauri

Does anybody remember Avara? If I remember correctly, the README for Avara initially (and brazenly) touted itself as "The game that would soon supplant Bolo as the defacto standard for gaming on campus and corporate networks. " Then after a little while, the newer README began touting itself as the game that DID replace Bolo as the standard for gaming on corporate and campus networks.

That was certainly the case as far as my very good newly departed friend and I were concerned. After slaving away at Microwarehouse Tech all day, we'd race home to our beach apartments and battle it out via our little LAN. After playing Avara over 14.4 dial-up you reeeeaaaalllly appreaciated the convenience of having ethernet dangling out your window to your neighbor's apartment! (not long before., we were using phone-net!)

My upstairs neighbor (at that same beach apartment) created a pretty brilliant plug-in for Escape Velocity, turning all of the ships into Star Wars ships (painstakingly rendered in Infini-D!!!). EV was a great game too, I've personally killed many hours (and brain cells!!!) playing my friend Mark's SW plug-in!

The title of this story remind's me of Calvin's adventures with his transmogrifer. I still wish I had that kind of imagination.

What a lot of people don't realize is that the cheapest form of power generation has been sitting right in front of us for 200 years: the Steam Engine. Yes, that's right. It's more efficient than any form of power generation requiring any form of fuel.

So why has this invention been suppressed? Money. Control. What the corporations and governments don't want you to know is that the steam engine is far, far cheaper than anything else on the market, and in terms of raw efficiency, blows any other fuel-based power generating device out of the water. They'd prefer you to think that "modern" methods of generating electricity are the only solution to the massive quantities of electricity needed by modern society, and they in turn require vast amounts of money to keep running these facilities. What goes on behind the scenes is a completely different story, though.

I left wondering if they really have a claim to it. Isn't it possible, for two different people, come up with the same exact solution to a problem?

It has already proven to happen in our world's history: as seen in the invention of the jet " ... As it did for two men, Frank Whittle and the young German physicist Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain, who, with out knowing about each others work, came up with the same design at around the same time ..."

This chicken may not be around anymore, but a little Googling will show other references.

And yes, I can admit to having lost a few games to her, too.

Great post! It's all starting to make sense... Apple is following Pirsig's lead. Being "insanely great" reminds me (literally and figuratively) too much of Phaedrus. I see the light, and it's blindingly bright...

Note: in order to understand this post, you must first read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...

Photo here.

So I grabbed and compiled a copy of VICE, the Commodore 64 emulator. Then I grabbed an abandon-ware copy of SAM, the Software Automatic Mouth. Its text-to-speech was about equivalent to the modern program. Plus, it had the option to type things in phonetically, including syllable emphasis. And it added the SAY command to the C64 built-in BASIC. All this in less than 32K is just incredible.

To be fair, I have heard some of the more modern TTS programs, and they do a pretty good job. So do some of the newer voice recognition programs, especially the ones now used on automated phone systems.

...90% of hardware improvements are essentially wasted by programmer inefficiency.

Look at those amazing 4K demos that people did (and stll do) for DOS. People are doing wild stuff here-- things like real-time pseudo-3D rendering, fractals, you name it-- all inside of 4 kilobytes of code. And most of these demos will run just as well on a '286 or (at most) '386 than today's space-heater chips.

Contiki is a lovely example of what can be done with efficient coding. In my experience, this sort of efficiency is NEVER achieved today in "commercial" projects or even in OSS/FS code-- people never even come close. The only areas of computing which have seen significant improvements (I don't just mean "more widgets" or "better interfaces" (the latter has nothing to do with hardware improvements, so don't even mention it)) in recent years have been:

* Gaming (perhaps the only area where efficiency is even SOMEWHAT appreciated, as it leads to higher FPS)
* Rendering (ditto)
* Real-time scientific simulations

In 1980, I could flip on an Apple II and have a usable prompt inside of a second or two. Nowadays, even with a screamin' P4 or Duron will get you a 30-second startup time-- if you're lucky. That's just to boot up the OS. Wanna start a word processor? That'll take even longer.

If you want to get a sense of what MY expectations were that were shattered, go grab a good Apple II emulator and some appropriate software and fire the emulator up. Make sure that it's running at the full possible speed-- not "compatible" speed (which is 1.02MHz, if I remember correctly). Look at how fast stuff runs... and that's in emulation. Sure, there's no fancy GUI, there's no clippy, whatever you think "modern" OSes have to have... but the point is that even in emulation, old stuff runs REALLY, REALLY FAST. If the same mentality of "efficiency is everything" that was necessary during the days of limited hardware power was voluntarily adopted today... well... imagine Windows XP starting up in one second (and not crashing). Imagine being able to swap cool new games on floppy disks. Imagine most games being distributed on Mini CDs, even those with lots of videos and speech, since a full (650-700MB) CD would be overkill for them.

Then wake up and realize it's time to go buy some more RAM again... ho hum...BillG just raised the bar on hardware requirements. Back to the treadmill we go...

Screw the Roomba and RoboSweep, now here is the ultimate geek robot vacuum.

Well, if yours goes down, I just copied it to a Tripod mirror. I won't take it down until who knows when... hopefully, it won't make anyone mad. Cheers!

No, seriously.

Well I, Mandark, have done the very same thing, emitting only 352.547 millifwops. Bwahahahaha.

In the U.S., I think that the government should fund Free Software development for projects that the Government is likeyly to use or desires for specific projects. I also believe that the government should not fund the development of closed source projects that are destined to be products for private vendors, as that would be using public funds to enrich private individuals and of course would end up rife with corruption. Perhaps using the BSD license for government funded projects would be "politically correct" enough in the Republican sense as it would not preclude thier supporters from turning the project results into a money making venture if they had the desire, technology, and business sense to do so.

I would not like to see the U.S. government begin funding programming in a more general way, because there is the possibility of uUniversities and Free Software development labs/projects becoming dependant on govt. money and the politicisation of Free Software when a govt. funded project is released that has the potential to be used in ways that some people do not approve of. A group of network security and monitoring tools could be misconscrued as "tools for hackers", or an HTTP server condemned as for "the distribution of pornography". To many, this may seem far fetched, but those who are familiar with the art world know how mixing public funding for museums and public exhibition venues was turned into a Republican "bully pulpit issue" in the controversy over the display of artwork most notably Piss Christ by Andres Serrano and some photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. The works in question were not specifically created using government funds, but the issues arose when facilities that were partially funded by government grants decided to display the artwork. As it is now, he volunteer nature of much Free Software development prevents many of the political issues that could arise, and it also ensures that political decision making has little or no direct influence on what is developed or how.

I must admit that I do find it disturbing to know that the U.S. government is funding "computer science" education programs that amount to little more than training facilities where people learn to program for a specific and propietary platform, but I'm not sure there is an acceptable policy that could prevent this.

The problem with that is, pennies are legal American currency. Lead isn't.

If we could legally pay in anything at it's fair market value, I'd like to send them say 14 1988 Yugo GV's. Junk yards make the fair market value of any car at least $50 as scrap. Hopefully they wouldn't send me my change as a Pinto .

I believe you could send them as some obscure legal currency, and they'd almost to take it. But, if you show up at their offices and offer South African Krugerrands, you may have more problems than you wanted.

As far as the legal currency thing goes, have you ever tried to pay for a tank of gas with pennies? Sometimes (like, when I was making part time mininum wage when I was a kid), that was the only way I could pay.. I had an attendant refuse $10 in mixed change. There was a cop there when it happened. I gave her the $10 (mostly pennies), and she tried to get the cop to arrest me for not paying, simply because she was refusing my money. He told her that it's legal tender in America, and that she couldn't refuse it. If she wanted to refuse it, she'd have to get the gas out of my car. :) I left with the gas, and without the $10 in change.

I need to view the html source to see if there are sarcasm tags there :)

If you were German, you would be serious.

But in Australia, if a beer doesn't have additives and preservatives, it is advertised as a feature. I still love it though.

This is all well and good, but when am I finally going to see a Mac OS X version of Stunt Copter?

(Here;s a link to the Classic version.)

I think the world has developed enough now, that we no longer need religion as a deterrent. It serves more as a tool for discrimination/fanaticism, rather than what it was intended for.

I think you're partially right, but I find that a very narrow viewpoint. Organized religion can be used as deterrent to certain behavior, but that's not necessarily the sum total of its function. Many people get a lot of personal and spiritual fulfillment out of their religion. It lends meaning to their lives. Because the original intent might have been to codify behavior has little bearing on the end product -- after all, Kellogg's Corn Flakes were originally invented as a deterrent to masturbation, but that isn't why most people eat them today.

It's inspiring that you have this much faith in humanity, but personally I'm comforted by the fact that some people consider themselves beholden to a divine power that will hold them accountable for their actions. It's hard for me to have a lot of optimism about human beings governing themselves morally "just because."

Atrocities are perpetrated for secular causes as much as religious ones. It's easy to dismiss religion on the basis of its lowest manifestations, while ignoring all its highest. Do away with Christianity and you might do away with some of the pain in the world, but you also lose the Sistine Chapel, the Divine Comedy, and Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Yes, religion can be, and often is, misused, but its potential misuse isn't interchangeable with its inherent value. Because you can stab someone in the eye with a ball-point pen doesn't mean we've evolved past the need for the written word.

You also have to look at history to gain understanding and context of why certain church events are placed where they were. Christmas was moved to the winter in order to combat a popular winter occult festival. Not only that, but remember that during the early formation of the Christian church, Rome was in the heydey of its power. The Jewish/Christian problems with self-image and body issues are a direct result of trying to turn away from "matters of the flesh" which Rome so famously embodied. But remember that religion has always been used as a dividing force: Christians in Venice rounded up Jews and placed them into a ghetto long before Hitler did this, and for many of the same reasons: fear of the other. I like to think that there is a divide: faith is from God/Deity/etc and good, while religion is a human construct that is more often than naught fsked up and twisted.

I don't think this lessens my christian belief - it just adds context and deepens the reasons.

I made it to the Wolf Camera in Richardson (suburban Dallas), and found out what this poster had already discovered: the $10.99 price doesn't include developing. It's another $10.99 for the prints and photo CD -- though it should be pointed out that that's not much different from their regular price, IIRC.

The purchase itself was no problem: walk in, find the single-use camera section, and a cardboard display full of "Digital Single-Use Camera" was perched on top of the original display. Grabbed one, paid the saleslady (who was very sweet, and also very clearly working on commission), and left. No EULA, no strings, just eleven bucks for a 25-shot 2-mpix camera.

By the way, only 4 of the 6 Dallas-Fort Worth "Digital Labs" (out of 35+ total locations) are set up to handle the new cameras (3 Dallas, 1 Fort Worth).

Here are my scans of the packaging. The front is the same as seen before, but the back has the details:

* Tag line: "The only digital camera that's easier to use than film." Depends on your definition of "easier", I guess, but then, I'm a geek.

* A blurry picture of the back of the camera. It's got a typical disposable viewfinder, an unlabelled light that may indicate flash readiness, the LCD "information window", and buttons for "self-timer" and "delete". I haven't opened the package to see how closely the picture matches reality.

* The LCD window appears to have a frame counter, and the words "Wait", "Timer", "D[???]", "Formatting...", and "Return for Prints". I can't make out the "D" word, and I'm not 100% on "Formatting".

* It points out that "Camera does not connect to home computers. Return camera to a participating Big Print Central location for processing." FYI, these are Ritz, Wolf, Kits, Inkley's, and The Camera Shop.

* The "Ritz Camera Recycling Pledge: 100% of this camera (not including batteries) will be recycled or reused when returned to Ritz Camera for processing." Of course, it will -- 'cause it's not a disposable in the first place.

* 9 features listed under "Why Choose Digital?", most of which are basic digital stuff (deleting, no winding). But two of them are a bit misleading: "FREE! Index Print" and "FREE! Photo CD with your pictures", because of the last item:

* "Camera price does not include processing"

The only legalese is the "Limitation of Liability", which is mostly a boilerplate saying "will replaced if defective... except for replacement, you ain't getting cash for your lost pix of Grandma". Also noted, though: "This product may contain recycled parts." And, "Camera made in China", which sparks the whole [explotation|employment] argument.

No EULA, no deposit, no DMCA warnings, no expressed or implied committment to return the camera to anyone. I bought it, it's mine, I can clearly do whatever the heck I want with it. As far as I can tell, it would be perfectly appropriate to keep the two AA batteries for my own use when returning the camera for processing (though I'll probably just swap them out for a couple of dead batteries).

Of course, that's assuming someone on Slashdot doesn't take care of the "processing" part for us.

Here's my little challenge: I'll personally pay $15 via PayPal to whoever comes up with a way to hook up my camera to my computer that I personally can implement with my medium-geek level of technical expertise. I'm a programmer and I can solder, but I don't have access to any fancy testing equipment.

Of course, the Wolf Camera circular advertising the new camera also includes a 2.0 Mpix camera from "Concord" for $79.99 -- less than the price of four "disposable" digital cameras plus processing. But $11 is a small price to pay for this much geek value, right?

Moreover, your post is terribly off-topic, but since you bring it up...

Anyone who is interested in Mutant Space Radical Mormon-Wiccan cooperatives, please feel free to visit Graff's links and drop me a line. Be sure and read the FAQ first.

http://proclus.tripod.com/radical/faq.html

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

I find it difficult to take someone named "Dr. Love" very seriously.

I find it difficult to take someone named "Dr. Love" very seriously.

I find it difficult to take someone named "Dr. Love" very seriously.

Yes, and since the United States generally follows the law of G'now juk Hol pajhard, we should hold our current President directly responsible!

Long live the empire!

jeremycec writes " Evidently, nothing's been resolved since 2001 , when this happened the first time. In these Memorandum Opinion and Preliminary Injunction documents from Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., we see how the court stepped in to pull the plug on a system, which, through its abject lack of due care, left someone's important financial information wide open to attackers. According to the former CIO of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: 'For all practical purposes, we have no security, we have no infrastructure, ... Our entire network has no, firewalls on it. I don't like running a network that can be breached by a high school kid.' So, when the BIA could get no relief through Interior's IT Dept., it went to the courts. Source: Government Computer News "

Nope, she's too busy heading over to California to worry about their governor. And here I thought she'd be busy playing Senator for New York, or attending Yankees games.

"Mike broke the Hubble! Mike broke the Hubble!"

you said tree nazis, why should they care about a grass:p and in response to your username, mullets and star wars, a combination by people with way too much time on their hands

Of course, you have to avoid the problems this guy had. (There a number of versions of this one. Apply salt.)

NKJV? NIV?

Those are (from my own view as a hobbyist translator) the positively WORST translations out there. The NRSV is much better as a translation, if you must have a modern English version, and if not, sure, anything is OK, but try reading a Geneva Bible, or better, William Tyndale (the "Matthews Bible").

-uso.

They've been around for some time.

To quote a now somewhat dated song ("A Song of Reproduction", Flanders and Swan, ~1950s):

High Fidelity
Hi-Fi's the thing for me
With an LP disc and an FM set
And a corner reflex cabinet
High frequency range
Complete with auto-change
All the highest notes niether sharp nor flat
The ear can't hear as high as that
Still I ought to please any passing bat
With my High Fidelity

...

High Fidelity,
FFRR for me.
I've an opera here you shan't escape,
On miles and miles of recording tape
High decibel gain
Is easy to obtain
With the tone control at a single touch
Bel canto sounds like double Dutch
But I never did care for music much,
It's the high fidelity.

The rest of it goes on in a similar vein.

Punkin' Chunkin' festival in delware around Halloween every year. Get to see pneumatic cannons launch pumpkins close to a mile and marvel at the physics behind the Centrifugal devices. Gives new meaning to BFG!

They say GM food is not dangerous. BULLSHIT. they don't recognize the need of keeping garden vegetables in their proper place!

Did they all forget about the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes ? Imagine what would happen if it was an Attack of Genetically Modified Tomatoes ? We would not stand a chance. Civilization as we know would be destroyed.

Just say NO to tomatoes

"I think OS's should have even more time spent on making better GUI's, with as much written language removed from it as possible"

Hackers and painters

In summary: a GUI-only interfaces is to a text-interface as film is to literature. It may feel easier to use at first, but the limitations are significant, it makes it more difficult to think outside the designers' box, and it cripples the linguistic abilities which most people love to practise.

Ever use the Lego programming language?

I'd have to day that ICO, while a great and entrancing game, has got some serious issues with its cover art.

Sorry about the pic.. couldn't find a bigger one

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

ACCOPS - Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security
RAVE - Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act

You want to know who REALLY runs the country now? It's obviously the people who thought up the ridiculous names for G.I. Joe vehicles so that they could have acronyms like the Cobra FANG, HISS, SNAKE, etc. Check out these names: http://crimsonguard.tripod.com/vehicles.html - notice a striking resemblance to current law names?

IMDB does not credit Philip K. Dick with writing the story that inspired the movie, but a guy named Ray Nelson. The story he wrote was called "8 O'Clock In The Morning" and I haven't heard of either the author or the story.

When I first saw the movie, I thought that it seemed very PKD-like...it had his weird hallucinogenic logic. I could see someone like John Carpenter cribbing from PKD and not crediting him. When you are dead by then (PKD died in 1982) you can't really fight back from the grave. Unless you have a son who goes to law school and goes into the practice of suing people who use the likenesses of dead people without their heirs' permission.

Me? I'm a small-time web designer working out of my house. I do web sites for bands (1,a href="http://itsbeerthirty.tripod.com">2), fire halls, and also maintain my own little network of sites, flagshipped by my blog. My sites aren't anything flashy, rarely including Shockwave/Flash, JavaScript, or even Frames. As any web developer should, I keep multiple browsers around for testing sites and making small fixes in the code.

The first browser I always check in is Opera. Opera is my broser of choice when I'm surfing, so I always make sure that Opera likes my sites at sever different resolutions. It kills pop-ups totally (which is good since I use Tripod as a quick hosting solution), and allows me to test different browser identities at once as well. In the Windows environment, Opera is my King browser.

Then I move on to IE. Like alot of other /. users, I'm fairly anti-Microsoft. The only reason I use it is because, while Linux solutions are good and getting better, what I want to do still lives only in MS's domain. Anyway, I use IE 5 to debug for the IE family. If it works in 5, it'll most likely work in 6, too, and ultimately 7 (whenever that decides to get here).

Then it's off to the latest Mozilla release. Every time a new release is put out, I'm on it. Mozilla is used to test for Netscape compatability as well (like IE, if it works in M, it should work in N) since I haven't the desire to try and download it on my measly 56K connection.

My final destination is Linux, where I check it in Mozilla and Konqueror (I'm a big KDE nut), and have a buddy check them in other Linux solutions.

In the end, this article goes on at length about the IE problem. That problem doesn't really bother me. Chances are that by the time MS gets IE7 on the shelves with Longhorn, I'll be well into Linux land using development solutions that, within the three years it will most likely take Longhorn to arrive, will most likely have improved quite a bit given the current rate of open source development.

Meanwhile, my work will most likely remain simple, to the point, and still able to work in any browser it needs to. In the end, I really don't care if there's another 'Browser War' or whatever. I'll be happy if enough people can see my work and say "Hey, that looks good. Easy on the eyes, and simple to use." That is the goal of any good website, no matter what the size.

Me? I'm a small-time web designer working out of my house. I do web sites for bands (1,a href="http://itsbeerthirty.tripod.com">2), fire halls, and also maintain my own little network of sites, flagshipped by my blog. My sites aren't anything flashy, rarely including Shockwave/Flash, JavaScript, or even Frames. As any web developer should, I keep multiple browsers around for testing sites and making small fixes in the code.

The first browser I always check in is Opera. Opera is my broser of choice when I'm surfing, so I always make sure that Opera likes my sites at sever different resolutions. It kills pop-ups totally (which is good since I use Tripod as a quick hosting solution), and allows me to test different browser identities at once as well. In the Windows environment, Opera is my King browser.

Then I move on to IE. Like alot of other /. users, I'm fairly anti-Microsoft. The only reason I use it is because, while Linux solutions are good and getting better, what I want to do still lives only in MS's domain. Anyway, I use IE 5 to debug for the IE family. If it works in 5, it'll most likely work in 6, too, and ultimately 7 (whenever that decides to get here).

Then it's off to the latest Mozilla release. Every time a new release is put out, I'm on it. Mozilla is used to test for Netscape compatability as well (like IE, if it works in M, it should work in N) since I haven't the desire to try and download it on my measly 56K connection.

My final destination is Linux, where I check it in Mozilla and Konqueror (I'm a big KDE nut), and have a buddy check them in other Linux solutions.

In the end, this article goes on at length about the IE problem. That problem doesn't really bother me. Chances are that by the time MS gets IE7 on the shelves with Longhorn, I'll be well into Linux land using development solutions that, within the three years it will most likely take Longhorn to arrive, will most likely have improved quite a bit given the current rate of open source development.

Meanwhile, my work will most likely remain simple, to the point, and still able to work in any browser it needs to. In the end, I really don't care if there's another 'Browser War' or whatever. I'll be happy if enough people can see my work and say "Hey, that looks good. Easy on the eyes, and simple to use." That is the goal of any good website, no matter what the size.

Me? I'm a small-time web designer working out of my house. I do web sites for bands (1,a href="http://itsbeerthirty.tripod.com">2), fire halls, and also maintain my own little network of sites, flagshipped by my blog. My sites aren't anything flashy, rarely including Shockwave/Flash, JavaScript, or even Frames. As any web developer should, I keep multiple browsers around for testing sites and making small fixes in the code.

The first browser I always check in is Opera. Opera is my broser of choice when I'm surfing, so I always make sure that Opera likes my sites at sever different resolutions. It kills pop-ups totally (which is good since I use Tripod as a quick hosting solution), and allows me to test different browser identities at once as well. In the Windows environment, Opera is my King browser.

Then I move on to IE. Like alot of other /. users, I'm fairly anti-Microsoft. The only reason I use it is because, while Linux solutions are good and getting better, what I want to do still lives only in MS's domain. Anyway, I use IE 5 to debug for the IE family. If it works in 5, it'll most likely work in 6, too, and ultimately 7 (whenever that decides to get here).

Then it's off to the latest Mozilla release. Every time a new release is put out, I'm on it. Mozilla is used to test for Netscape compatability as well (like IE, if it works in M, it should work in N) since I haven't the desire to try and download it on my measly 56K connection.

My final destination is Linux, where I check it in Mozilla and Konqueror (I'm a big KDE nut), and have a buddy check them in other Linux solutions.

In the end, this article goes on at length about the IE problem. That problem doesn't really bother me. Chances are that by the time MS gets IE7 on the shelves with Longhorn, I'll be well into Linux land using development solutions that, within the three years it will most likely take Longhorn to arrive, will most likely have improved quite a bit given the current rate of open source development.

Meanwhile, my work will most likely remain simple, to the point, and still able to work in any browser it needs to. In the end, I really don't care if there's another 'Browser War' or whatever. I'll be happy if enough people can see my work and say "Hey, that looks good. Easy on the eyes, and simple to use." That is the goal of any good website, no matter what the size.

No, not in the neck, in the forehead or the hand. Trust me though, it's coming.

-uso.

I'm surprised that you haven't been modded Flamebait right now, but I firmly agree with you.

We do not necessarily know it all. It is possible that God is deliberately hiding knowledge from our eyes. He knows all, and who are we to question his infallible (at least IMHO) Word?

-uso.
If you like the Bible you'll love the 1576 Tomson NT. :)

Here is another guy who thinks that his patented propulsion method will let you fly to the moon. Basically it's a totally closed box where spinning disks generate lift. He seems to think that he doesn't need to push on anything to produce lift. Oh, and by the way ... last I heard, he's still looking for investors!.

It's not as wacky as NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE, but it's definately out there.