An under-ice rover isn't likely in the near future, as estimates of the ice thickness range from 30km to at least a few kilometers.
But...we know that the outer crust of Europa is elastic because of the gravitational forces from Jupiter. According to http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~fnimmo/website/paper27.pdf there is likely to be areas during certain tidal forms that are much thinner than that and some that are thicker. As we study it further I am sure smarter people than myself will work out math to make this feasible. Assuming certain countries' space programs are given a budget and they can afford to spend a little less on fighter jets and bombs, that is.
Dragonfly is good for inspecting, particularly for mobile with remote debugging, but I find Firebug and the Web Developer addon for Firefox easier to use. I guess I might just be used to right click + Q to inspect instead of navigating a menu... albeit only about a 0.75 second time-saver, it's what I'm used to... and the Web Developer toolbar allows quick highlighting of block elements like you were mentioning. Not to mention quick cache disable, js, all image sizes and paths on the page, and quick user agent access.
The one thing Opera does have that I LOVE is the Opera Mobile Emulator. Emulator plugins for Firefox still give spotty results, but even my weakest mobile detection scripts work with all presets in OME. This is more useful than the Dragonfly remote debugging even, in my opinion.
I second this. I also am enrolled in a BS/IT program, like the OP, which has pretty much been worthless for my career as a front-end developer. What has been useful is that my company pursues the newest technology with each website we do. Four websites ago we went with.NET MVC 3. Three sites ago, MVC 4. Two sites ago, responsive designs and mobile integration. My current site may shed the.NET framework altogether.
Throughout this process I had no idea how to use the next technology -- my team and I just learn by doing it. And, we're better off for that. Get out there, grab something unfamiliar and put it to work. It may take a little longer to make something, but the experience itself is invaluable.
Calling it masturbation and farting isn't a real argument.
I post code to the internet for others to learn from. If they want to take snippets, then good for them, that's what people do with open source. If they want to use the whole thing, then fine.
Someone took one of my apps and ported it to another platform without telling me. Good, I'm happy for them. It'd have been nice if they'd sent me a message to inform me or thank me, but I don't require that.
None of this requires licenses. And I hate licenses. Why would I want to use one or invent one.
When I give a gift to someone, I don't plaster it with terms and conditions. I hope they'll like it. I hope they'll find it useful. I'll be disappointed if they sell it on, but I'm not going to make them agree to not selling it on before I give them the gift.
The problem with open source licensing is that the number of people creating and giving is far outweighed by the number of people that see it as their RIGHT to get open source software. They are quite obnoxious about their rights, and forget that that software was actually a gift. Don't apply a license and you don't have that problem. No one makes the mistake of believing that it's their right to have your code. They remain in the correct frame of mind that the code is there through your generosity of spirit.
Being a mostly self-taught developer, I learned most of what I know today from reviewing other peoples' code. I have since posted my own snippets in the hopes thatt others can learn to program in the same way. It is not completely altruistic, though; much of this viewpoint comes from the massive profits and market squeezing done by the big corporations -- but that is irrelevant.
I agree with your view fundamentally and I wish others did as well. I have not yet built software impressive enough for a corporation to be interested in stealing (that I know of) so it is impossible for me to say what level of disappointment I would feel if that did happen. But for now, I am onboard with your thoughts.
The disparity of your quoted numbers lead me to question your claims. This is not intended as bait, this is to point out that people in general tend to exaggerate. I can't speak for everyone, but I for one do not believe the validity of a comparison of 'one or two tabs' versus 'two dozen tabs'.
So MS will be publishing their own standard. What will happen?
1. Looking at VBscript and Silverlight/Moonlight, it will essentially fail - alternatives exist (Javascript, Flash) that are equally viable and more widely supported.
2. Some idiots will use MS-only tech ANYWAY, breaking support for anything but the Windows platform and alienating a substantial user base.
3. If the spec is open (looking at dot net), some open source group will produce their own version to permit interoperability with other platforms.
Wasn't it netflix that required Silverlight to be installed?
4. However, this doesn't guarantee that code written for Windows-based products will actually work out of the box on the other platforms.
An example of this once again is dotnet: Even with the whole CLR available on Linux, some idiot will tie their source code into a proprietary Windows API, e.g. to have SharePoint interoperability.
5. Eventually (looking at CSS and MS' implementation of JavaScript and the document object model) MS will have to give in and better support the actual official standard, but by that time the damage will have been done. Remember the original HTML spec only permitted writing JavaScript in the HTML header - just think for a moment how many cross-site-scripting issues that prevents. But NOOO, MS decided people should be allowed to litter script tags all over the document body. Great going, MS.
6. In some cases, an MS spec will end up sufficiently well-documented that it becomes the de-facto norm across platforms. The.wav file format is a good example of this; it's pretty much always supported. That doesn't mean it's not brain-dead (Why on earth is the length of a WAV file a SIGNED integer?)
Anyway, I'm not exactly looking forward to the implications.
Let me preface by saying I am not a Microsoft supporter, following that up with...you're off-base here.
1. Adobe discontinued work on Flash for mobile. Looking at the rest of the industry, that's a good indication of Flash's imminent death. Silverlight works fine on all major devices not made by Apple.
2, Anybody who has published HTML5 video/audio knows you already have to have four different codecs to be cross-platform compliant. What's the difference?
3, See #2. As if nobody has tried to unify formats and codecs before. Re: Silverlight. Yeah, and? How about all the sites that require Flash or Java to be installed? How is Java treating us these days?
4. Your reference here is hard to follow, but I assume this is 3a? If so this implies a lack of understanding about codecs. These are not Windows-based or Linux-based, they are (for web purposes) browser-based. Firefox on Windows runs the same codec (Theora) as it does on Linux or OSX.
5. Putting Javascript at the bottom of your page code optimizes page loading. Shame on Microsoft for allowing this.
6. You can have this one, I don't see the connection anyway.
Look, I'm sorry to be critical of someone who shares my views on Microsoft, but you are giving us a bad name by making baseless points.
Given all the attention recently put on beef, I expect McDonalds to be truthful on their page talking about their meats:
Do you use American meat?
We do. All of our chicken comes from our trusted USDA-inspected suppliers in the U.S., like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods. Our beef and pork products also come from trusted USDA-inspected suppliers, such as Lopez Foods. In order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of our 100% pure beef is imported from USDA-inspected suppliers in Australia and New Zealand
The term USDA-inspected doesn't carry nearly the same power as it did 20 years ago. From allowing meat grinders to create and monitor their own safety plan with no followup corpwatch.org, to allowing chicken farms to do the same foodsafetynews.com, to criminally lax contamination guidelines on pork mercola.com... this can continue but there are already dozens of documentaries to make these points.
Big Food will keep telling us our food is safe while pumping us full of the steroid-ridden anemic flesh that so many love.
The disappointing part is I had always looked at Sweden's government model as being efficient and well-balanced in the past, especially in terms of education and health care. I wonder if this type of action is typical of their judicial system.
Sorry, but having seen the former permenant collection, I was incredibly disappointed at the temporary "Icons" exhibit. It's nowhere close to the original in scale or impact. It takes up only about a quarter of the space the other one did (when I was there, the part that used to have robots had a horror exhbit and they redid the wall so you can't even get to the part with the cool weapons and all the old pulp mags, let alone where the death star used to be). It's also way less dense, and has almost none of the literature scattered around that the old one used to.
Space conservation by removing space. Sigh.
On a serious note, I visited the EMP and was equally disappointed.
I never could figure out why Microsoft went with a.docx extension for something that is just a.zip file
So that you can associate one application with.zip files, and a different application with.docx?
There are actually quite a few file formats that are also just a ZIP container on the top level. ODF is a prominent example. It's simply convenient, but it's also an implementation detail that a casual user should not be concerned with.
I switched to delivering resumes in PDF format years ago. I write my resume with LaTeX so getting it into Word format would mean a fair amount of work, and I've yet to come across any potential employer who both demanded Word format and was interesting enough to me that I was willing to put in that effort.
That's a great idea, PDF skips all this.doc and.docx nonsense. I never could figure out why Microsoft went with a.docx extension for something that is just a.zip file, but MS will continue to do their own thing and make others deal with it I guess...
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An under-ice rover isn't likely in the near future, as estimates of the ice thickness range from 30km to at least a few kilometers.
But...we know that the outer crust of Europa is elastic because of the gravitational forces from Jupiter. According to http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~fnimmo/website/paper27.pdf there is likely to be areas during certain tidal forms that are much thinner than that and some that are thicker. As we study it further I am sure smarter people than myself will work out math to make this feasible. Assuming certain countries' space programs are given a budget and they can afford to spend a little less on fighter jets and bombs, that is.
Citrix for remote access to work. :(
Junos web access for the same reason ... sigh.
Dragonfly is good for inspecting, particularly for mobile with remote debugging, but I find Firebug and the Web Developer addon for Firefox easier to use. I guess I might just be used to right click + Q to inspect instead of navigating a menu ... albeit only about a 0.75 second time-saver, it's what I'm used to ... and the Web Developer toolbar allows quick highlighting of block elements like you were mentioning. Not to mention quick cache disable, js, all image sizes and paths on the page, and quick user agent access.
The one thing Opera does have that I LOVE is the Opera Mobile Emulator. Emulator plugins for Firefox still give spotty results, but even my weakest mobile detection scripts work with all presets in OME. This is more useful than the Dragonfly remote debugging even, in my opinion.
I second this. I also am enrolled in a BS/IT program, like the OP, which has pretty much been worthless for my career as a front-end developer. What has been useful is that my company pursues the newest technology with each website we do. Four websites ago we went with .NET MVC 3. Three sites ago, MVC 4. Two sites ago, responsive designs and mobile integration. My current site may shed the .NET framework altogether.
Throughout this process I had no idea how to use the next technology -- my team and I just learn by doing it. And, we're better off for that. Get out there, grab something unfamiliar and put it to work. It may take a little longer to make something, but the experience itself is invaluable.
Calling it masturbation and farting isn't a real argument.
I post code to the internet for others to learn from. If they want to take snippets, then good for them, that's what people do with open source. If they want to use the whole thing, then fine.
Someone took one of my apps and ported it to another platform without telling me. Good, I'm happy for them. It'd have been nice if they'd sent me a message to inform me or thank me, but I don't require that.
None of this requires licenses. And I hate licenses. Why would I want to use one or invent one.
When I give a gift to someone, I don't plaster it with terms and conditions. I hope they'll like it. I hope they'll find it useful. I'll be disappointed if they sell it on, but I'm not going to make them agree to not selling it on before I give them the gift.
The problem with open source licensing is that the number of people creating and giving is far outweighed by the number of people that see it as their RIGHT to get open source software. They are quite obnoxious about their rights, and forget that that software was actually a gift. Don't apply a license and you don't have that problem. No one makes the mistake of believing that it's their right to have your code. They remain in the correct frame of mind that the code is there through your generosity of spirit.
Being a mostly self-taught developer, I learned most of what I know today from reviewing other peoples' code. I have since posted my own snippets in the hopes thatt others can learn to program in the same way. It is not completely altruistic, though; much of this viewpoint comes from the massive profits and market squeezing done by the big corporations -- but that is irrelevant.
I agree with your view fundamentally and I wish others did as well. I have not yet built software impressive enough for a corporation to be interested in stealing (that I know of) so it is impossible for me to say what level of disappointment I would feel if that did happen. But for now, I am onboard with your thoughts.
The disparity of your quoted numbers lead me to question your claims. This is not intended as bait, this is to point out that people in general tend to exaggerate. I can't speak for everyone, but I for one do not believe the validity of a comparison of 'one or two tabs' versus 'two dozen tabs'.
So MS will be publishing their own standard. What will happen? 1. Looking at VBscript and Silverlight/Moonlight, it will essentially fail - alternatives exist (Javascript, Flash) that are equally viable and more widely supported. 2. Some idiots will use MS-only tech ANYWAY, breaking support for anything but the Windows platform and alienating a substantial user base. 3. If the spec is open (looking at dot net), some open source group will produce their own version to permit interoperability with other platforms. Wasn't it netflix that required Silverlight to be installed? 4. However, this doesn't guarantee that code written for Windows-based products will actually work out of the box on the other platforms. An example of this once again is dotnet: Even with the whole CLR available on Linux, some idiot will tie their source code into a proprietary Windows API, e.g. to have SharePoint interoperability. 5. Eventually (looking at CSS and MS' implementation of JavaScript and the document object model) MS will have to give in and better support the actual official standard, but by that time the damage will have been done. Remember the original HTML spec only permitted writing JavaScript in the HTML header - just think for a moment how many cross-site-scripting issues that prevents. But NOOO, MS decided people should be allowed to litter script tags all over the document body. Great going, MS. 6. In some cases, an MS spec will end up sufficiently well-documented that it becomes the de-facto norm across platforms. The .wav file format is a good example of this; it's pretty much always supported. That doesn't mean it's not brain-dead (Why on earth is the length of a WAV file a SIGNED integer?)
Anyway, I'm not exactly looking forward to the implications.
Let me preface by saying I am not a Microsoft supporter, following that up with...you're off-base here.
Re: Silverlight. Yeah, and? How about all the sites that require Flash or Java to be installed? How is Java treating us these days?
Look, I'm sorry to be critical of someone who shares my views on Microsoft, but you are giving us a bad name by making baseless points.
Given all the attention recently put on beef, I expect McDonalds to be truthful on their page talking about their meats:
Do you use American meat?
We do. All of our chicken comes from our trusted USDA-inspected suppliers in the U.S., like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods. Our beef and pork products also come from trusted USDA-inspected suppliers, such as Lopez Foods. In order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of our 100% pure beef is imported from USDA-inspected suppliers in Australia and New Zealand
The term USDA-inspected doesn't carry nearly the same power as it did 20 years ago. From allowing meat grinders to create and monitor their own safety plan with no followup corpwatch.org, to allowing chicken farms to do the same foodsafetynews.com, to criminally lax contamination guidelines on pork mercola.com ... this can continue but there are already dozens of documentaries to make these points.
Big Food will keep telling us our food is safe while pumping us full of the steroid-ridden anemic flesh that so many love.
The disappointing part is I had always looked at Sweden's government model as being efficient and well-balanced in the past, especially in terms of education and health care. I wonder if this type of action is typical of their judicial system.
Sorry, but having seen the former permenant collection, I was incredibly disappointed at the temporary "Icons" exhibit. It's nowhere close to the original in scale or impact. It takes up only about a quarter of the space the other one did (when I was there, the part that used to have robots had a horror exhbit and they redid the wall so you can't even get to the part with the cool weapons and all the old pulp mags, let alone where the death star used to be). It's also way less dense, and has almost none of the literature scattered around that the old one used to.
Space conservation by removing space. Sigh. On a serious note, I visited the EMP and was equally disappointed.
I never could figure out why Microsoft went with a .docx extension for something that is just a .zip file
So that you can associate one application with .zip files, and a different application with .docx?
There are actually quite a few file formats that are also just a ZIP container on the top level. ODF is a prominent example. It's simply convenient, but it's also an implementation detail that a casual user should not be concerned with.
That's a good reason, thanks.
I never could figure out why Microsoft went with a .docx extension for something that is just a .zip file
This is exactly what .odt (and the rest of the OpenOffice formats) are, too.
I don't remember the last time I saw an employer request a resume in an .odt format, but point taken.
I switched to delivering resumes in PDF format years ago. I write my resume with LaTeX so getting it into Word format would mean a fair amount of work, and I've yet to come across any potential employer who both demanded Word format and was interesting enough to me that I was willing to put in that effort.
That's a great idea, PDF skips all this .doc and .docx nonsense. I never could figure out why Microsoft went with a .docx extension for something that is just a .zip file, but MS will continue to do their own thing and make others deal with it I guess...