As a web designer, you really only have to follow the standards. Sure, are you using the latest ones, there will be old browsers out there that can't handle it. There are people still using Netscape 4.7, so you never know...! Personally though I test my homepages in the latest versions of IE, Opera and Mozilla (if it works there it works in Netscape 6 too). I am trying to use the latest versions of HTML and CSS, which sometimes doesn't render alike in every browser... Opera doesn't have 100% support for CSS2, for example. If I use.png graphics, I know that I can never use alpha transparency since IE6 does not have full support for.png. About Flash and javascript, I have to say that both have their place in web design, and actually I like flash sites, even if I have learned that a lot of people seem to hate it...
Agreed, but this (ISS) was the first major international cooperation in space... I meant that maybe they have learned from all the mistakes from ISS. One can hope...
Yes indeed. I hope that Russia, ESA, NASA and the others have gained a lot of experience from huge international projects after building the ISS. It took a while but finally it's there. I think that this next big international project will gain from this. Also, it would boost the public interest in space exploration to new heights, I'm sure.
"10 months to a year, 10 days to the month, 10 hours to the day. 10 minutes to the hour, 10 seconds to the minute. Might as well force pi to be 3 while you're at it. Or how about 10?"
I eventually decided to reply to this instead of modding it to something more proper than "Insightful". Because if there's anything the above post isn't, it's Insightful. Now, it's very possible to have 10 months/year, or 10 hours/day. It's all about how you define the "months" and "hours" and so on. Why would this be the same as changing the value of a natural constant as pi?
"I cheer on your use of linux, but we are a minority, a well informed minority, but a minority non the less."
This is why democracy in its current form does not work well. Just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't mean it is. A democracy as it looks like in most western countries is not a guarantee for freedom, where the government are authorized every 3rd or 4th year to rule the country, and where the governments have far too much power and where the lobby groups have far too much influence on the government...
Freedom is not a consequence of democracy, and democracy is not necessarily leading to freedom. I am primarily reffering to this senator Fritz that wants to make TCPA mandatory in all electronics. This means that alternatives will be outlawed, and everyone must use this. To give anyone this much power over others should be criminal.
True, indexed pages on the internet is not the single most important thing for a search engine. But it is definitely up there in the top. Personally I would preffer more indexed pages before most other things one can measure a search engine, simply because then I know there's a greater chance to find what I'm looking for, even if maybe it will be a little more difficult.
I dislike writing code in an exam as well. Not only cause it's so much to write, but if you write a page full of code and you realize you made some error, somewhere... and you have to erase lines, insert lines. Very fun, not. But usually the profs tell us that the code is not expected to be 100% error-free, that if we make minor syntactic or other such errors, it could be ok if the *solution* is correct.
Ofcourse I agree with you, debugging is a huge part of programming (one of the most time consuming, depending on the circumstances), and if they want to try our abilities there, they have to do it otherwise than on paper.
Well, whatever they think... fact remains, there are planets orbiting other stars, and they've found at least one with an athmosphere. If they don't like it, they can do what they do with other science that goes against their belief system; close their eyes and hope it will go away.
I ask becuase, in discussions with Christians, I've heard Christians tell me that there is no intelligent life on other planets.
As far as I know, noone knows whether this is true or not. Saying that there is or is not alien life, and being very sure when there is no clear evidence in either direction, is not any different from being very sure when saying there is a god when there's absolutely no evidence.
So I've often wondered what Christians (particularly Christian nerds, who are probably significantly more friendly to science than some of the Christians I've met) think when stories like thit surface and hint at the possibility of finding other "Earth-like" planets that may have intelligent life on them.
Well, I for one am glad that this is not the mideavals or the dark ages, where the church had all the power and intended to keep it that way, by punishing, for example, scientists that dared to make discoveries and even publish them.
So, what if the scientists discover life and even intelligent life on other planets? What will happen, especially if christians can't stand the truth? Will they try to stop schools from teaching these new findings, as they are trying with various success stop the teaching of evolution, and before that, tried to stop Galileo Galilei to publish his book where he describes how the earth is orbiting the sun and not vice versa?
Science can never be blasphemous even if there IS a god. I am pretty sure that a god that created us would let us see the universe he created, for would that not be flattering him; trying so hard to see it all? Aren't christians (or other religious ones) always talking about the Truth? Then why not let us see the truth?
If there is a god, he has never tried to stop us from seeing his creation - only human beings that are arrogant enough to claim to have some sort of directions from, and communication with god has ever tried to stop it. Never let them do that.
I can share music and files in many many ways, and i can get it with different kinds of software, webbrowsers, FTP clients, etc etc. As I said in another comment... file sharing software doesn't violate copyrights, people violate copyrights. They have no right stopping this software or any other except viruses.
If some person had a patent on FAQs, then noone else could make their own FAQs. But the idea of a FAQ is not patented (as far as I know) and can not be copyrighted. However, a specific FAQ can be copyrighted, but that doesn't stop anyone else from making their own, just that they can not copy others.
I've noticed you're PC if you're not a fascist, christian fundamentalist, far right wing, or any other stupid things one can be.
"Maybe blacks and whites should be treated equally" Oooh, how PC of you! "It might be a good idea not to ruin the environment completely" You are so PC, shut up!
To believe that blacks and whites should be treated equally is not "PC". It's simply the right thing. Likewise, it is not "PC" to think that the environment is important. It's simply common sense.
"PC" has always been, is and will always be a stupid term. It is without substance, it is without meaning.
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As a web designer, you really only have to follow the standards. Sure, are you using the latest ones, there will be old browsers out there that can't handle it. There are people still using Netscape 4.7, so you never know...! Personally though I test my homepages in the latest versions of IE, Opera and Mozilla (if it works there it works in Netscape 6 too). I am trying to use the latest versions of HTML and CSS, which sometimes doesn't render alike in every browser... Opera doesn't have 100% support for CSS2, for example. If I use .png graphics, I know that I can never use alpha transparency since IE6 does not have full support for .png. About Flash and javascript, I have to say that both have their place in web design, and actually I like flash sites, even if I have learned that a lot of people seem to hate it...
Agreed, but this (ISS) was the first major international cooperation in space... I meant that maybe they have learned from all the mistakes from ISS. One can hope...
Yes indeed. I hope that Russia, ESA, NASA and the others have gained a lot of experience from huge international projects after building the ISS. It took a while but finally it's there. I think that this next big international project will gain from this. Also, it would boost the public interest in space exploration to new heights, I'm sure.
I remember reading about this in an astronomy paper i subscribed to back in the 90's...
"I cheer on your use of linux, but we are a minority, a well informed minority, but a minority non the less."
This is why democracy in its current form does not work well. Just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't mean it is. A democracy as it looks like in most western countries is not a guarantee for freedom, where the government are authorized every 3rd or 4th year to rule the country, and where the governments have far too much power and where the lobby groups have far too much influence on the government...
Freedom is not a consequence of democracy, and democracy is not necessarily leading to freedom. I am primarily reffering to this senator Fritz that wants to make TCPA mandatory in all electronics. This means that alternatives will be outlawed, and everyone must use this. To give anyone this much power over others should be criminal.
So something triggered it and something made it leave the building. How do these robots work, what sensors do they have? Light and touch, is my guess?
I think there is nothing more to this than coincidenses and malfunction in the robot.
It's still more pages to search, and even if it's difficult to find them (if it is?), I still think that "difficult" is better than "impossible".
True, indexed pages on the internet is not the single most important thing for a search engine. But it is definitely up there in the top. Personally I would preffer more indexed pages before most other things one can measure a search engine, simply because then I know there's a greater chance to find what I'm looking for, even if maybe it will be a little more difficult.
I dislike writing code in an exam as well. Not only cause it's so much to write, but if you write a page full of code and you realize you made some error, somewhere... and you have to erase lines, insert lines. Very fun, not. But usually the profs tell us that the code is not expected to be 100% error-free, that if we make minor syntactic or other such errors, it could be ok if the *solution* is correct.
Ofcourse I agree with you, debugging is a huge part of programming (one of the most time consuming, depending on the circumstances), and if they want to try our abilities there, they have to do it otherwise than on paper.
Well, whatever they think... fact remains, there are planets orbiting other stars, and they've found at least one with an athmosphere. If they don't like it, they can do what they do with other science that goes against their belief system; close their eyes and hope it will go away.
As far as I know, noone knows whether this is true or not. Saying that there is or is not alien life, and being very sure when there is no clear evidence in either direction, is not any different from being very sure when saying there is a god when there's absolutely no evidence.
Well, I for one am glad that this is not the mideavals or the dark ages, where the church had all the power and intended to keep it that way, by punishing, for example, scientists that dared to make discoveries and even publish them.
So, what if the scientists discover life and even intelligent life on other planets? What will happen, especially if christians can't stand the truth? Will they try to stop schools from teaching these new findings, as they are trying with various success stop the teaching of evolution, and before that, tried to stop Galileo Galilei to publish his book where he describes how the earth is orbiting the sun and not vice versa?
Science can never be blasphemous even if there IS a god. I am pretty sure that a god that created us would let us see the universe he created, for would that not be flattering him; trying so hard to see it all? Aren't christians (or other religious ones) always talking about the Truth? Then why not let us see the truth?
If there is a god, he has never tried to stop us from seeing his creation - only human beings that are arrogant enough to claim to have some sort of directions from, and communication with god has ever tried to stop it. Never let them do that.
Just think what news they would report if they had not blocked access to Washington Post and CNN. :-)
Guess they didn't peel the onion.
You will find no place in the universe where there is zero gravity.
Why is a certain geographical spot a nation? Why can the people there say "this is our place and it's our right to claim this land"?
It's simple. It's theirs because they can protect it from others. When they can no longer, it wont be theirs anymore.
Even if it ran Windows we wouldn't notice if it crashes, since Jesus saves.
So because one guy said this, it is true libertarianism? I doubt he is a libertarian at all.
I can share music and files in many many ways, and i can get it with different kinds of software, webbrowsers, FTP clients, etc etc. As I said in another comment... file sharing software doesn't violate copyrights, people violate copyrights. They have no right stopping this software or any other except viruses.
Filesharing tools doesn't violate copyrights.
People violate copyrights.
If some person had a patent on FAQs, then noone else could make their own FAQs. But the idea of a FAQ is not patented (as far as I know) and can not be copyrighted. However, a specific FAQ can be copyrighted, but that doesn't stop anyone else from making their own, just that they can not copy others.
I agree with you.
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I've noticed you're PC if you're not a fascist, christian fundamentalist, far right wing, or any other stupid things one can be.
"Maybe blacks and whites should be treated equally"
Oooh, how PC of you!
"It might be a good idea not to ruin the environment completely"
You are so PC, shut up!
To believe that blacks and whites should be treated equally is not "PC". It's simply the right thing. Likewise, it is not "PC" to think that the environment is important. It's simply common sense.
"PC" has always been, is and will always be a stupid term. It is without substance, it is without meaning.