So how do you explain that NASA and ESA cooperate then? I could give you countless articles about it.
Let's pick an example... Hubble itself is one huge NASA / ESA joint project. And what does the I in ISS stand for again? But maybe such small matters don't count for you?:-)
Do they seriously think people eager enough to spend their bandwidth and sanity to watch a cam of, say, Star Wars Episode 3 will not go to the movies for the real thing?
In some cases that's probably right for logical reasons, but I think they also have planned for and carried out several fairly innovative and unique missions to increase our knowledge beyond Earth.
Of course they have other things to protest about these days. Weren't their concern that it would blow up before leaving Earth, along with its 60 pounds of plutonium-238? I agree they're crazy though if they still think Cassini is a concern.
Yes, but we aren't talking small businesses here, we're talking web sites. Please stick to the topic and don't use your conclusions about businesses with web sites. They're apples and oranges.
If you continue to do, you need to at least show exactly why customers using e.g. the IE browser is "very different" from someone using Opera to a web master of a niche site like this one. It displays correctly in both, and in Mozilla too, like most sites, so why should he/she even care?
I know IE users who don't want popup blocking and can't see why it's better than just using the task bar (strange? yes). And they'll probably have popup blocking from SP2 when Mozilla Firefox goes out of beta.
Showing that you can write viruses for 64-bit system?
Oh my god, I would never have thought that was possible! How can it be!? Mind boggling indeed! But it's great virus writers develop concept viruses to show us these amazing tasks that was previously thought impossible can actually be done!!
Hmm, why do "some people" in your argument exclude the government? They're "some people" too. What is it to say the government itself wouldn't flip out if aliens were found, and cause equally serious damage?
Yes, let's keep it simple and let others make the decisions for what you and me should know.:-P Don't forget that the government is made up of common people. People that of course make mistakes unless they're somehow inhuman. You're putting a hell of a lot of trust in your goverment if you think they'll make all the right decisions if an earth shattering thing like aliens would be discovered. Give me one reason to why they should do this. The current US goverment is led by a person who only around 50% of the population agreed was good enough to run the country.
I just can't understand this "don't disturb me in my bubble with stuff that could be complicated" mentality... Why not just stop watching the news on TV, reading the newspaper and listening to radio while you're at it?
I mean, aside from the wow-factor of, "I've been to the New World!"
This being modded +5 shows how much some moderators here lack fundamental history knowledge...:-(
It was a journey for wealth, power and hopes for a better life than where they lived now. Many failed to find what they were looking for, although some did. It was everything but a travel for "taking a look" and being able to say "hey, I've been to the New World!". Actually, they usually didn't return to say anything at all.
Yup, this is feeling less and less like "if we can make this work", but "when we can make this work". And that time might not be too far away... When we manage to get a working fusion reactor, that would be the innovation of this century in many ways. The holy grail of energy production in a sense.
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So how do you explain that NASA and ESA cooperate then? I could give you countless articles about it.
:-)
Let's pick an example... Hubble itself is one huge NASA / ESA joint project. And what does the I in ISS stand for again? But maybe such small matters don't count for you?
How many people really want to watch a pirated version of a movie? I mean, one that was done using a camcorder as opposed to a leaked original
The true hard core fans that will also watch the same film at the local cinema.
Do they seriously think people eager enough to spend their bandwidth and sanity to watch a cam of, say, Star Wars Episode 3 will not go to the movies for the real thing?
They're insane.
In some cases that's probably right for logical reasons, but I think they also have planned for and carried out several fairly innovative and unique missions to increase our knowledge beyond Earth.
Because it makes launching payloads between 300 and 2000 kg cheap, I guess. ( at least relatively speaking :-) )
Are you still living in the cold war, thinking everything in space is a competition?
Of course they have other things to protest about these days. Weren't their concern that it would blow up before leaving Earth, along with its 60 pounds of plutonium-238? I agree they're crazy though if they still think Cassini is a concern.
Is this a proof of the "Slashdot dupe story" concept?
Small businesses are very different
Yes, but we aren't talking small businesses here, we're talking web sites. Please stick to the topic and don't use your conclusions about businesses with web sites. They're apples and oranges.
If you continue to do, you need to at least show exactly why customers using e.g. the IE browser is "very different" from someone using Opera to a web master of a niche site like this one. It displays correctly in both, and in Mozilla too, like most sites, so why should he/she even care?
Yeah, and that's probably the real one.
Since Douglas Adams has said he just did this. Picked a number. Source
Hehe
:-(
As usual, the moderator points are most useful when you don't have them.
If Google stopped providing their services to ISP's in California. I wonder how they'd react then. They'd have all rights to do so at least, IMHO..
Probably an even smaller fraction than the people who let the browser identify itself properly.
Your site is a niche site.
Let's see what a site that's visited by a broader audience (with a site that *do* work for all modern browers) tell?
- Browsers used to visit Google, April 2004
- Operating systems used to visit Google, April 2004
I know IE users who don't want popup blocking and can't see why it's better than just using the task bar (strange? yes). And they'll probably have popup blocking from SP2 when Mozilla Firefox goes out of beta.
But it's so cool to say virii and it makes you look wise and better than the people who just go for the simple "viruses"! :-P
At least that's why I think so many caught on with the term...
Hmm... You come from the KiB camp, right? ;-)
Showing that you can write viruses for 64-bit system?
Oh my god, I would never have thought that was possible! How can it be!? Mind boggling indeed! But it's great virus writers develop concept viruses to show us these amazing tasks that was previously thought impossible can actually be done!!
Hmm, why do "some people" in your argument exclude the government? They're "some people" too. What is it to say the government itself wouldn't flip out if aliens were found, and cause equally serious damage?
Yes, let's keep it simple and let others make the decisions for what you and me should know. :-P Don't forget that the government is made up of common people. People that of course make mistakes unless they're somehow inhuman. You're putting a hell of a lot of trust in your goverment if you think they'll make all the right decisions if an earth shattering thing like aliens would be discovered. Give me one reason to why they should do this. The current US goverment is led by a person who only around 50% of the population agreed was good enough to run the country.
I just can't understand this "don't disturb me in my bubble with stuff that could be complicated" mentality... Why not just stop watching the news on TV, reading the newspaper and listening to radio while you're at it?
It would be pretty fun to use it for pissing off RIAA big time too.
Heh heh... Hey, imagine a Beowulf cluster of Win... ... *barf*
Whenever someone mentions Mozilla I think "bloatware".
;-)
You do know the full name of Firefox is Mozilla Firefox, right?
I mean, aside from the wow-factor of, "I've been to the New World!"
:-(
This being modded +5 shows how much some moderators here lack fundamental history knowledge...
It was a journey for wealth, power and hopes for a better life than where they lived now. Many failed to find what they were looking for, although some did. It was everything but a travel for "taking a look" and being able to say "hey, I've been to the New World!". Actually, they usually didn't return to say anything at all.
Yup, this is feeling less and less like "if we can make this work", but "when we can make this work". And that time might not be too far away... When we manage to get a working fusion reactor, that would be the innovation of this century in many ways. The holy grail of energy production in a sense.