As much as I hate to admit it, Adobe appears to have succeeded in reaching what HTML5 is still striving to attain: write once, for one platform. Run anywhere that platform runs. HTML5 might have a chance to catch up, but I am doubting it.
Flash has one crucial failing however, due to its proprietary nature - it's larely opaque to automated spidering. That means search engines can't categorise it properly; it's like with image galleries, you're largely reliant on user tagging which will always be of an extremely random (or even malicious) nature. Don't get me wrong, I've helped set up flash applications for intranet deployment, I do appreciate the cross platform power it can bring to the table, but I wouldn't recommend it to be able to stand on it's own in the wild. If you want to use it for decorative purposes, great, if you can put it as much as possible in a walled garden, fine, but until it's fully opened it's just not a frontline contender for web ubiquitousness.
As importantly, does anyone care about browser speed? Most computers these days run 3D FPS games without batting an eyelid, the focus by chrome in particular on stripping off things to make it "faster" isn't going be noticed by anyone. Speed hasn't mattered since the 90s, so how it would be "key" is anyone's guess.
What made it interesting for me was the crossover between the harsh realities of our modern world, including rape and terminal illness, and the softly lit fantasy worlds where innocence is real. I think it got a lot of people's backs up because they assumed it was glorifying rape (central character was a rapist), which Donaldson also followed through with in his superb Gap series, but that wasn't the point at all. You see that same kind of stark contrast in movies like The Fall and Pan's Labyrinth, a breathtaking mechanism if you can pull it off.
Yup -- not really a scientist is pretty clear there
On the contrary, displaying imagination with the information available in order to hypothesise solutions is perfectly valid science. The only problem is the op hasn't a complete set of information.
Stellar engineering!?! Any civilization capable of that would be capable of finding another planet.
Never heard of nostalgia? Should humanity ever escape the earth and populate the stars, I'd imagine that sol will be one of the last ones to go dark, in the far future.
And propulsion signatures, Really? What exactly would that look like?
He's thinking about that spurious Project Rho page on space stealth I think.
Will the miniscule differences relative to a standard modern processor make a difference? Also, why would I do that, I've all the neccessary dedicated applications on my PC already. I wouldn't try to surf the web via photoshop nor edit photos in firefox.
Thats what I don't get about chrome, I mean whats the point? Processing speeds have long, long since ceased being the chokepoint for web page loading and performance. The effects of a faster browser are mostly unnoticeable these days where an average PC can run 3D FPS games without blinking, chrome is trying to solve a problem that disappeared in the late 90s. Firefox hits the sweet spot IMHO.
In either case, you'll need a decent supply of heat; but that is a technologically solvable problem.
Reading in the other story earlier about black coloured plants, one of the issues raised was that black foliage would make their environment too warm. Maybe a first step towards the biocolonisation of mars would be to geneer a few of those? Talk about your new dark continent!
You're assuming an absolute universal frame of reference. What the GP is saying is that there is no such thing
There is though, it's just no use to us since we can't observe it. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I also cannot see any reason that FTL should imply time travel, any more than supersonic flight should interfere with.cause and effect.
The thinking goes, the magnetron is basically an antenna, right? So it can pick up as well as transmit energy. If an electric charge builds up and arcs stright into the magnetron, it can blow up. Or something like that. I've never seen it happen, and I've blown up a lot of stuff in microwaves over the years.
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As much as I hate to admit it, Adobe appears to have succeeded in reaching what HTML5 is still striving to attain: write once, for one platform. Run anywhere that platform runs. HTML5 might have a chance to catch up, but I am doubting it.
Flash has one crucial failing however, due to its proprietary nature - it's larely opaque to automated spidering. That means search engines can't categorise it properly; it's like with image galleries, you're largely reliant on user tagging which will always be of an extremely random (or even malicious) nature. Don't get me wrong, I've helped set up flash applications for intranet deployment, I do appreciate the cross platform power it can bring to the table, but I wouldn't recommend it to be able to stand on it's own in the wild. If you want to use it for decorative purposes, great, if you can put it as much as possible in a walled garden, fine, but until it's fully opened it's just not a frontline contender for web ubiquitousness.
As importantly, does anyone care about browser speed? Most computers these days run 3D FPS games without batting an eyelid, the focus by chrome in particular on stripping off things to make it "faster" isn't going be noticed by anyone. Speed hasn't mattered since the 90s, so how it would be "key" is anyone's guess.
The twitter feed from his ghost is better: http://twitter.com/#!/ghostosama
While it sounds like Pakistan signed off on the raid
I think the BBC is reporting that Pakistan was not made aware prior to the event.
Regulatory capture, seriously a bigger threat to democratic processes than terrorism. Study it, learn it, oppose it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Using the Magnifying iGlass app?
Better yet, will someone please explain why there is an expletive warning? What are we, children?
It's hard to lay the blame on manufacturers when people flock to the newest upgrade.
But people often flock to the latest and greatest because of sophisticated marketing campaigns, operated by these same manufacturers.
What made it interesting for me was the crossover between the harsh realities of our modern world, including rape and terminal illness, and the softly lit fantasy worlds where innocence is real. I think it got a lot of people's backs up because they assumed it was glorifying rape (central character was a rapist), which Donaldson also followed through with in his superb Gap series, but that wasn't the point at all. You see that same kind of stark contrast in movies like The Fall and Pan's Labyrinth, a breathtaking mechanism if you can pull it off.
Have you just ruined the entire Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series for me?
Technically everything will last forever, it just changes state a lot over that period. :p
Funny that, you'd think people would just buy and break apart the devices, then sell them for parts?
Since when is 40 old? MTV has a lot to answer for.
3) Really advanced races harvest stars for their energy and matter.
Well, either that or they regularly blow them up as a part of ongoing conflicts.
Yup -- not really a scientist is pretty clear there
On the contrary, displaying imagination with the information available in order to hypothesise solutions is perfectly valid science. The only problem is the op hasn't a complete set of information.
Indeed, a slight overestimation our nuclear bling there.
Stellar engineering!?! Any civilization capable of that would be capable of finding another planet.
Never heard of nostalgia? Should humanity ever escape the earth and populate the stars, I'd imagine that sol will be one of the last ones to go dark, in the far future.
And propulsion signatures, Really? What exactly would that look like?
He's thinking about that spurious Project Rho page on space stealth I think.
Meh, an 80 year old in my town just got her first third level degree. The human mind is capable of absolutely stunnng feats on a routine basis.
Will the miniscule differences relative to a standard modern processor make a difference? Also, why would I do that, I've all the neccessary dedicated applications on my PC already. I wouldn't try to surf the web via photoshop nor edit photos in firefox.
As good or better than chrome's leveraged marketing platform you mean.
Thats what I don't get about chrome, I mean whats the point? Processing speeds have long, long since ceased being the chokepoint for web page loading and performance. The effects of a faster browser are mostly unnoticeable these days where an average PC can run 3D FPS games without blinking, chrome is trying to solve a problem that disappeared in the late 90s. Firefox hits the sweet spot IMHO.
Much easier just to mine the asteroids, they're already sitting there filled with gigatons of precious metals.
In either case, you'll need a decent supply of heat; but that is a technologically solvable problem.
Reading in the other story earlier about black coloured plants, one of the issues raised was that black foliage would make their environment too warm. Maybe a first step towards the biocolonisation of mars would be to geneer a few of those? Talk about your new dark continent!
You're assuming an absolute universal frame of reference. What the GP is saying is that there is no such thing
There is though, it's just no use to us since we can't observe it. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I also cannot see any reason that FTL should imply time travel, any more than supersonic flight should interfere with.cause and effect.
The thinking goes, the magnetron is basically an antenna, right? So it can pick up as well as transmit energy. If an electric charge builds up and arcs stright into the magnetron, it can blow up. Or something like that. I've never seen it happen, and I've blown up a lot of stuff in microwaves over the years.
And this is why I love slashdot.