it helps having an actual choice not to use IE when you start windows 7 (browser ballot). For whatever reason, it also seems to be generally better in Europe than the states.
A mixed market of complaint browsers and the possibility of an IE version that conforms to existing standards instead of trying to write its own would be a godsend for web developers everywhere, and since we can finally use the more awesome features, the end users too.
Wikipedia tells me that IE6 usage is double that plus 2% as of august. I doubt it dropped that far in the space of less than 2 months (but I hope it did...).
yes, I prefer the system where you just marked with a writing utensil beside the name of your selected candidate. Simple, unhackable, easily computer readable, and if worst comes to worst you've got hard copies. Digitally, however, you have to contend with the fact that so many people's computers are riddled with malware and are totally insecure. If you provide the machines, then you've still got line tampering, and its not best to base your system on always being on the winning side of the cypher/cracker war. Literally the only way to make sure you've got a secure system is to lock down the devices on each end jobs style (or make it a single possible purpose device) and guard or keep under surveillance every mile of cable. Online voting is just not practical at this time.
joking aside, I think we'd see a larger surge in mac sales than linux usage, or in other words, a flooded used computer market (hooray!). I'm not saying that windows is intrinsically insecure (or at least any more insecure than any CSS is), but put a technologically illiterate person on an ubuntu machine, where all (or most) software is downloaded from a software repository, and another similarly illiterate person on a windows machine where software is installed from random sites on the internet, and I think I know who's going to have more malware... Windows adopted a better policy for limited users, and I applaud MS for doing that, but that doesn't help when the open internet is your version of a repository.
is why they didn't do this with LOTR, each of the books were in two parts anyway (can't remember if the hobbit was or not) and they could've had a lot more detail and content. Bombadil? The elves in the shire? The scouring of the shire?
did I say planet? I just meant off-world source. I'm a huge proponent of asteroid mining for those reasons, plus individual asteroids can contain upwards of a trillion dollars of recoverable resources.
however, with a fusion (think tsar bomba times 10, about a gigaton blast each) powered orion spacecraft, we could reach about.30C . To put that in perspective, if voyager 1 was traveling at.30C, it would be about half way there. If we couln't secure thermonuclear warheads and had to contend with a fission powered orion, maxing out at.10C or so, it would be a bit less than a quarter of the way there. If we managed to harness antimatter (.80C), it would've been there for several years already.
there are theories that it was at one point extremely earth like. However, the sun brightens over time and the habitable zone moves outwards. Venus has been outside the hz for millions of years, and if all the atmosphere was removed, it would only be 35C colder than earth (average earth temperature is around 14C). You could concievably tow it out to the habitable zone with, say, a large asteroid, but after that there's still the atmosphere to deal with.
I think we should also simultaneously work on terraforming for a 'meet in the middle' approach. If we did that, we could have mars habitable by the end of the 22nd century (if anyone cared). We should also work on restarting project orion and building interstellar spacecraft to explore these possibly already habitable worlds. 20 light years would only take a couple of months from the crew's perspective (time dilation) and FTL travel isn't out yet either
Exactly. Even if it's unlikely to happen, we still need infrastructure in space to deal with it if it does, or to facilitate interplanetary(stellar) shipping on every other day of the year. Plus a backup planet to trade with...
it'd be pretty cool if they had an html5/webgl implementation, but I'm guessing it'll be something like runescape. What's the point of a browser mmo if its not platform agonistic?
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plus konqueror, epiphany, midori, etc. Also, how's that off topic? Firefox/Chrome fanboys?
it helps having an actual choice not to use IE when you start windows 7 (browser ballot). For whatever reason, it also seems to be generally better in Europe than the states.
A mixed market of complaint browsers and the possibility of an IE version that conforms to existing standards instead of trying to write its own would be a godsend for web developers everywhere, and since we can finally use the more awesome features, the end users too.
Wikipedia tells me that IE6 usage is double that plus 2% as of august. I doubt it dropped that far in the space of less than 2 months (but I hope it did...).
http://xkcd.com/233/ Seriously, when I heard of the algorithm that could solve captchas 30% of the time, I was like: "Download link?"
That's why you create cryogenically frozen superconductor lines. Assuming the power savings are worth it...
yes, I prefer the system where you just marked with a writing utensil beside the name of your selected candidate. Simple, unhackable, easily computer readable, and if worst comes to worst you've got hard copies. Digitally, however, you have to contend with the fact that so many people's computers are riddled with malware and are totally insecure. If you provide the machines, then you've still got line tampering, and its not best to base your system on always being on the winning side of the cypher/cracker war. Literally the only way to make sure you've got a secure system is to lock down the devices on each end jobs style (or make it a single possible purpose device) and guard or keep under surveillance every mile of cable. Online voting is just not practical at this time.
Pfft, nobody uses anything other than linux and BSD in real life. Windows and OS X are just hobby OSes, and that's all they ever will be.
joking aside, I think we'd see a larger surge in mac sales than linux usage, or in other words, a flooded used computer market (hooray!). I'm not saying that windows is intrinsically insecure (or at least any more insecure than any CSS is), but put a technologically illiterate person on an ubuntu machine, where all (or most) software is downloaded from a software repository, and another similarly illiterate person on a windows machine where software is installed from random sites on the internet, and I think I know who's going to have more malware... Windows adopted a better policy for limited users, and I applaud MS for doing that, but that doesn't help when the open internet is your version of a repository.
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer a mixed gender ship...
This is a great thing! Within 3 days of this becoming standard practice, there won't be any windows users with an internet connection!
is why they didn't do this with LOTR, each of the books were in two parts anyway (can't remember if the hobbit was or not) and they could've had a lot more detail and content. Bombadil? The elves in the shire? The scouring of the shire?
what isn't a threat to national security these days?
did I say planet? I just meant off-world source. I'm a huge proponent of asteroid mining for those reasons, plus individual asteroids can contain upwards of a trillion dollars of recoverable resources.
however, with a fusion (think tsar bomba times 10, about a gigaton blast each) powered orion spacecraft, we could reach about .30C . To put that in perspective, if voyager 1 was traveling at .30C, it would be about half way there. If we couln't secure thermonuclear warheads and had to contend with a fission powered orion, maxing out at .10C or so, it would be a bit less than a quarter of the way there. If we managed to harness antimatter (.80C), it would've been there for several years already.
there are theories that it was at one point extremely earth like. However, the sun brightens over time and the habitable zone moves outwards. Venus has been outside the hz for millions of years, and if all the atmosphere was removed, it would only be 35C colder than earth (average earth temperature is around 14C). You could concievably tow it out to the habitable zone with, say, a large asteroid, but after that there's still the atmosphere to deal with.
we somehow developed more intellectual capacity than we'd ever need just to survive what this planet was throwing at us.
At least some of us..
precisely. I think he's just been listening to too much right-wing news outlets....
I think we should also simultaneously work on terraforming for a 'meet in the middle' approach. If we did that, we could have mars habitable by the end of the 22nd century (if anyone cared). We should also work on restarting project orion and building interstellar spacecraft to explore these possibly already habitable worlds. 20 light years would only take a couple of months from the crew's perspective (time dilation) and FTL travel isn't out yet either
Exactly. Even if it's unlikely to happen, we still need infrastructure in space to deal with it if it does, or to facilitate interplanetary(stellar) shipping on every other day of the year. Plus a backup planet to trade with...
unless Kurzweil is right and nanobots cure aging in the 30's
I disagree, I liked DS9 and I loved andromeda (though B5 was better than DS9). The quality of a series is subjective.
it'd be pretty cool if they had an html5/webgl implementation, but I'm guessing it'll be something like runescape. What's the point of a browser mmo if its not platform agonistic?
pfft, I think we need tamarian support before that. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
I'm thinking I read on UF that it will be the default in 11.04, it's really too late for 10.10.