Why would supporting IE cost extra and especially $100,000?
Just follow w3.org standards and test in a standards compliant browser.
The latest IEs support the standards and since they are not a bank or a government org they don't have to worry about supporting earlier versions of IE.
A lot of people in our field have lousy health and when they die young is a bit of a loss for us all.
Geeks can do a few simple things to protect their health without becoming gym rats.
Reducing calories by only 250 calories a day can lead to weight loss of over 20 lbs a year. 250 calories is about one soda, a juice, etc.
Learn to drink a low calorie source of caffiene, like lightly sweetened tea / iced tea. Drink only water at other times.
Don't go vegetarian or anything, but try to reduce animal products in your diet. It is good for the environment too. You can get more information here from tryveg.com
These suggestions aren't enough to give you bullet proof health, but they require very little time away from a computer and can keep you alive over the long term.
Don't forget "The Hacker's Diet", a diet plan made for geeks.
Why not invest the money in Tesla, bullet trains, solar/wind generated electricity, vaccines for 3rd world children, developing a compressed air battery car further, etc?
The world doesn't need a working replica of an obsolete ship.
Everything I have seen/heard coming out of Florida, starting with the 2000 elections, moving through the Martin shooting and now this makes me consider Florida to be a 3rd world country embedded within the United States.
This is a good development. If more people found out how medical students disrespect cadavers the population would donate their bodies to science even less.
Reading the prices in the original post triggered Bill Maher's rant in my head over and over again how the U.S. spends more on "defense" than the rest of the world combined. Ugh, at the same time he has guests on his show like Regan's David Stockman who thinks the entire U.S. economy could collapse like Greece within a year.
Do we really need to be spending 70 million to 3 billion dollars for bombers?
The journalist Fareed Zakaria believes that lack of spending on education, lack of spending on infrastructure and a loss of the saving ethic are the real reasons the U.S. economy has declined over the past few decades.
Maybe it is time to use some of the military budget to pay for things that make money.
I don't think intelligence counts nearly as much as the ability to suffer, but a baboon is likely to suffer far more in the wild than in a researcher's lab.
I don't know if I would agree with that. A baboon in the wild might go hungry from time to time before it has one short, but intense episode of suffering before death: getting caught by a predator. Before that it is living free and to its instincts.
In a research lab, a baboon would live in a cage, with its freedom of movement restricted. Its death wouldn't be quick and intense. It might be made sick and kept alive, suffering for a long time while it was being studied.
Dogs, like your dog, are also experimented on. Sometimes horrifically and sometimes for frivolous reasons. The nail polish your 3 year old puts on his claws was already tested on other animals.
"Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place."
- Robert Heinlein, sci-fi author, "Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
2012 is also the 100th anniversary of the Oreo cookie and it is believed to be the end of the world by the Mayan calendar. Coincidence? I think not.......
No reason only ordinary people should go through life feeling like an amoebae under a microscope.
I enjoy the occasional article posted to Slashdot about law enforcement organizations lobbying against police being videod ( it is time to retire the word "filmed" as obsolete ).
I love the irony of the authorities, at least some of them, being told what they tell us.
"Gee officer, if you are doing your job and following all the rules then you have nothing to be worried about"
I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but IE usage in the work place is almost compulsory.
Network admins know IE, they think supporting other browsers will add to their work load so they don't support other browsers.
Additionally, many companies have, bought, make/maintain legacy webapps that were hardcoded to non-standard web tech in IE so to get work done people use IE at work.
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Why would supporting IE cost extra and especially $100,000?
Just follow w3.org standards and test in a standards compliant browser.
The latest IEs support the standards and since they are not a bank or a government org they don't have to worry about supporting earlier versions of IE.
Coffee does hurt people's stomachs, contribute to osteoporosis, anxiety and sleep problems.
Americans drink a huge amount of coffee, yet we still have a huge amount of caridovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity etc killing us.
If coffee is an aide to health it is not enough to override all of the bad habits we have.
People just like hearing good news about their bad habits.
I'm not saying quit coffee.
A cup ( you know 8 fluid ounces ) a day without cream and sugar probably wouldn't hurt anybody, but how many coffee drinkers drink that little?
Just switching to a low calorie caffeine source can help.
Cutting out ONLY 250 calories a day, what is in a soda, can lead to a 25 pound weight loss over the course of a year.
A good quality tea, without milk and maybe a dash of lemon or a single teaspoon of sugar will go a long way.
That and avoiding snacking, which IT work can help with since it sucks up your attention.
A lot of people in our field have lousy health and when they die young is a bit of a loss for us all.
Geeks can do a few simple things to protect their health without becoming gym rats.
Reducing calories by only 250 calories a day can lead to weight loss of over 20 lbs a year. 250 calories is about one soda, a juice, etc.
Learn to drink a low calorie source of caffiene, like lightly sweetened tea / iced tea. Drink only water at other times.
Don't go vegetarian or anything, but try to reduce animal products in your diet. It is good for the environment too. You can get more information here from tryveg.com
These suggestions aren't enough to give you bullet proof health, but they require very little time away from a computer and can keep you alive over the long term.
Don't forget "The Hacker's Diet", a diet plan made for geeks.
They will put a gun turret on the roof....
"This post has been brought to you by the clean coal coalition"
You might be happier if you stop being a Republican or at least a TEA Bagger :)
Why not invest the money in Tesla, bullet trains, solar/wind generated electricity, vaccines for 3rd world children, developing a compressed air battery car further, etc?
The world doesn't need a working replica of an obsolete ship.
Everything I have seen/heard coming out of Florida, starting with the 2000 elections, moving through the Martin shooting and now this makes me consider Florida to be a 3rd world country embedded within the United States.
This is a good development. If more people found out how medical students disrespect cadavers the population would donate their bodies to science even less.
Here is a video of Fareed Zakaria talking about the points I mentioned in regards to the US economic slowdown
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/tag/fareed-zakaria/
Reading the prices in the original post triggered Bill Maher's rant in my head over and over again how the U.S. spends more on "defense" than the rest of the world combined. Ugh, at the same time he has guests on his show like Regan's David Stockman who thinks the entire U.S. economy could collapse like Greece within a year.
Do we really need to be spending 70 million to 3 billion dollars for bombers?
The journalist Fareed Zakaria believes that lack of spending on education, lack of spending on infrastructure and a loss of the saving ethic are the real reasons the U.S. economy has declined over the past few decades.
Maybe it is time to use some of the military budget to pay for things that make money.
In both Battlestar Galactica series, both fictional ships were very very old. This sort of reminds me about that.
I don't think intelligence counts nearly as much as the ability to suffer, but a baboon is likely to suffer far more in the wild than in a researcher's lab.
I don't know if I would agree with that. A baboon in the wild might go hungry from time to time before it has one short, but intense episode of suffering before death: getting caught by a predator. Before that it is living free and to its instincts.
In a research lab, a baboon would live in a cage, with its freedom of movement restricted. Its death wouldn't be quick and intense. It might be made sick and kept alive, suffering for a long time while it was being studied.
Yah, those slicky boy marketing types love to do that. Makes them sound more impressive.
Dogs, like your dog, are also experimented on. Sometimes horrifically and sometimes for frivolous reasons. The nail polish your 3 year old puts on his claws was already tested on other animals.
If baboons can learn to recognize words is it ethical to use them in medical testing? Some retarded human beings can't do that much.
"Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place."
- Robert Heinlein, sci-fi author, "Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
- hybrids cost more upfront
- only the Prius eventually makes a difference in terms of
less money paid out for fuel
- hybrids have lousy resale values. The battery eventually has to be replaced to the tune of several thousand dollars.
- electric cars are coming out. Hybrids are transition vehicales
Wow, the U.S. government helping people who are not rich, who do not run corporations? Are the Republicans on sabbatical?
2012 is also the 100th anniversary of the Oreo cookie and it is believed to be the end of the world by the Mayan calendar. Coincidence? I think not.......
The "acting properly" part is my guess as to why they have trouble with being on video
No reason only ordinary people should go through life feeling like an amoebae under a microscope.
I enjoy the occasional article posted to Slashdot about law enforcement organizations lobbying against police being videod ( it is time to retire the word "filmed" as obsolete ).
I love the irony of the authorities, at least some of them, being told what they tell us.
"Gee officer, if you are doing your job and following all the rules then you have nothing to be worried about"
I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but IE usage in the work place is almost compulsory.
Network admins know IE, they think supporting other browsers will add to their work load so they don't support other browsers.
Additionally, many companies have, bought, make/maintain legacy webapps that were hardcoded to non-standard web tech in IE so to get work done people use IE at work.
To my understanding, the Supreme Court is involved because it may be unconstitutional to require citizens to buy anything.
Yet, I was required to buy auto insurance by every state I lived in.
Do state laws not need to be constitutional ?