Think of it this way... you can put a wide variety of Crew vehicles atop the new/old rocket design.... whereas the Shuttle design requirements are much more specific.
By the time this is ready, they could have a CRV designed to fit atop the rocket... but the capsule is a great fallback alternative.
The Catholic Church IMHO though is not a good example of this particular.
However, Billy Graham, the Evangelical Protestants (read Christian Right) and entities like TBN are perfect examples.. TBN being Trinity Broadcasting Network, you know the US channel with the pink haired lady who sits on a golden throne while asking poor people to donate money so they can buy more satellite time...
I'm Christian but I have yet to see what "Good" those Evangelical groups have done in the world,...
Personally I think Martin Luther would be ashamed to find out what has happened to his Reformation.
As for the slogans... again, already here "What would Jesus Do" !!!! much like "Rock the Vote", is spoken with about just as much conviction by the people it is targeted at.
Ya know... back in Roman times Churches of all sorts were much like Corps.. more like organized Crime families really.. and would do whatever it took to gain new members. Cons, lies, violence... whatever to get the donations in their coffers instead of the other guy's.
FYI, yes Churches have been pushing the limits of politcal involvement recently... pushing pretty hard in fact
BUT, if you take away the separation of Church & State vis-a-vis, begin taxing Churches... treating them like businesses or corporations, then you better not come complaining when they begin behaving like the aformentioned.
Be careful what you wish for.
Churches are HUGE institutions and if we start treating them like businesses... well... just think about it. The biggest franchises out there.. in most cities there are how many churches? 100, 200? You probably don't notice how many there are cause you're not looking for them but they are more prevalent than McDonalds or Starbucks and bring in way more money.
Next thing you know, the Churches are going public to huge IPOs and a decade of acquistitions and mergers happens... and they become even more powerful.
I won't go any further but let your imagination run wild, then realize it would be much more extreme than even that.
If this is your view of American colleges... you are entirely mistaken. For one thing, we're not talking about colleges here.. we're talking about Universities... now to move past the semantics...
Universities are businesses, not educational institutions at all. Like any business they must compete for revenue with the rest of their industry. Some compete by being the best available educational resources of learning for their high paying customers... and others compete by providing the best available 'socialization' resources for their customers (aka students, their parents and the foundations that pay for those who can't afford the high tuitions).
Including such things as music services, internet access to the www (as opposed to just the local network), festivals, pubs, stores, cafes and all other things that a person in their 20s might consider appealing while they are stuck for 4 years learning how to be a good employee...
I won't even go into the fact that modern humans are not ADULTS at 18 or 22 or even 24 anymore... as a society we've pretty much pushed the age back to the early 30s by now, at least in America.
I remember protesting dihydrogen oxide back in the sixties... to very little effect.. we're all still completely addicted to this heinous chemical. Where does it end? Oh the humanity....
huh... AltiVec is a vector processing unit correct? My understanding of OS X windowing is that it's all vectors using a pdf rendering engine through core graphics now of course for hardware accelleration via the GPU. What I'm saying is that a GPU could easily be used for such encoding/decoding tasks as well, it's a very specific task and doesn't need a whole co-processor to itself if a portion of the GPU could do the work as well.
netioning the GPU is a great point... seeing as how OS X now has it's Core Graphics routines which go directly to the GPU for a whole hell of a lot of it's rendering performance, in both the UI for the Finder/windowing system and it looks like increasingly in all pre and post proecessing of graphics generally across apps. So the question is whether the AltiVec portion of the PPC will even be relied upon in the future.. in fact it looks like Apple has purposefully developed away from relying on the altivec unit in preference to using the GPU for doing vector transforms and other intense rendering calculations.
All this leads me to believe that they are both improving the speed and efficiency of the OS and hedging against reliance on PPC tech for general computing by tying their system more to GPUs than CPUs... a trend that looks to continue.
Have them send you a list of companies they've done work for with a personal number for their contact there and ask questions. You should be able to tell if they are a team worth paying good money for pretty quickly.... ie: did they educate their customer enough to tell you anything of use.. if so then they probably know what they are doing... what sort of maintenance contract did they propose... is the cusotmer satisfied with their followup work as much as the initial development effort... read belwo for more good questions to ask.
What it really all comes down to is "how badly do you want it?"
It doesn't matter how much money you spend or what talent you have available... if you want it enough the money and talent will come to you. This applies in all things in life.
I'll second the other responder.... CSS has plenty of control... in fact I wish that Quark and InDesign would support CSS for object positioning... then I could define placement as well as typestyle...
Most of the problems probably come from rendering issues not spec issues....
Try working with SVG for a while and be happy for basic CSS+HTML
Okay, so you've been here for 21 years huh... I call bullshit. Can I have some money now?
Where do you live in the US? I grew up in a mobile home where my dad paid bills month to month but was self-employed as a custom picture framer. We lived in a small rural town in South Carolina with about 200 residents... the schools served 3 towns in the area - we had to ride a bus an hour to get to school each morning and to get home each afternoon.
But those schools were top notch and I got a very good education, honors program sponsored by Apple computers where I learned Basic and logic diagrams in the second grade, we had a spanish teacher for one class a day... plenty of computers to do work on and intramural sports, soccer, football, baseball, basketball, etc....
Point is that between public funding and a little corporate bonus I had a very good education which prepared me for higher learning and opened my mind to opportunity. Not everyone in the school took advantage of it... lots of kids were more interested in goofing off or playing hookie. I have no idea what happened to them but they were offered every opportunity...
The high school had classes in Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and German... this is a school with less than 2,000 students - what we called a 2A school (it goes up to 5A with over 4500 students). There were plenty of scholarships available to anyone who cared.
I moved to California when I was 14 though so I ended up in a much larger high school in a very diverse area with a much more wealthy economy... the school was less than I'd hoped for.. basically just a GPA mill where over half the students needed tutors just to pass their grade because the teachers didn't teach... so having lots of money around doesn't guarantee quality of life.
The US is what the people make of it. It is a land of opportunity and if you work hard you can take advantage of what's available... or you can just take it all for granted or worse yet you can slack off and fall through the cracks into a social slum and end up poor and ignorant.
So bitch and moan about missing out on it all, just realize that it is there for anyone who wants it bad enough. It doesn't take money, it takes hard work. Just because you're a resident it doesn't mean you're a citizen, even if you were born here... citizenship is a privilege you must earn, not an entitlement you are born with.
I didn't mean to throw common sense out the window... airtight from the kitchen is what I should have said.... sure have a filtered air intake and an exhaust of some sort.
Guess I got ahead of myself there a little though, assuming some things would be assumed;-p
It's small size and available bluetooth for wireless keyboard, wireless card builtin, not sticking out the back, etc. etc. seems perfect for this application....
Also if you put the keyboard and mouse into a air-tight cabinet or drawer of some sort you won't need to worry about whether they are themselves damage proof, ie: make a pullout drawer with a hidden surface on a roller track.. put a rubber seal around the drawer and keep it closed when not in use. If you go with wireless you won't have to worry about cords... also put the Mac mini under it in a air-tight cabinet under the drawer...
Use screensaver skins over the display if possible (don't know if they would work with touch sensitive, pressure sensitive for sure but IR grid screens may be affected)... the screensaver skins come in many sizes and are popular for covering laptop screens and peel off when they get too dirty.
"when the sunspot storm turns away from the earth, pointing its radiation elsewhere."
This part of the summary post seems to suggest that it's not just quacks who are geocentric... who ever heard of the sun or it's sunspot 'turning away from the earth'... I was thinking maybe that the earth would move away from the sunspot instead,, you know as it orbits the sun. The radiation will stay where it's at but we will move out of it's path.
Nearly every major leap in technology in every discipline has been funded for and by the US military.
After the fact it is commercialized and improved upon so as to become a consumer attractive product, meaning smaller, more energy efficient and less buggy... iteratively over several generations so that by the time we see it it doesn't look anything like the original.
The latest trend is for the military to start buying these cheaper more efficient versions from commercial suppliers... but the original tech is still developed early by the military and military contractors/university programs.
and it wouldn't even install.... I double clicked an' everything... My Powerbook doesn't have any virii or adware that I know about but I sure would like to find out if it does....
Maybe it's not for Macs? Do I need to run VirtualPC to use this new miraculous anti-software?
Well, I've never had any of the problems my friends tell me about every other week or so, so maybe I'm okay.
Learn how to evaluate a complicated mathematical expression. There are examples you can use everywhere but if you don't know how to read the math symbols you won't know how to apply them.
Know how logic works. Conditional statements are what makes a web application do almost everything it does. If this condition, do (a), if some other condition do (b), else do (c). You can copy and paste code to get some functionality to happen but if you don't know how it's logic operates you won't be able to customize it to your particular needs.
Compose things, don't just throw them together. Composition includes balance, hierarchy of importance, and purpose. Use composition when creating the look of a site and when designing the architecture and user flow.... composition tells your audience how to use your site and what is important and what is they should pay attention to.
Marketing and Business skills will help you understand your clients needs as well as aid you in your own personal success whether you work with a company or on your own.
Everything else you learn now will most likely be old-fashioned or worse yet EOLed by the time you get into your career... even if you plan to start working in 2 years... languages come and go, applications change all the time and new ways of doing things are constantly being invented or 'innovated'.
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Chess, Checkers, Mahjong, etc. etc.
The goal is to beat or kill your opponent, 'nuf said.
Think of it this way... you can put a wide variety of Crew vehicles atop the new/old rocket design.... whereas the Shuttle design requirements are much more specific.
By the time this is ready, they could have a CRV designed to fit atop the rocket... but the capsule is a great fallback alternative.
It's already happening.
The Catholic Church IMHO though is not a good example of this particular.
However, Billy Graham, the Evangelical Protestants (read Christian Right) and entities like TBN are perfect examples.. TBN being Trinity Broadcasting Network, you know the US channel with the pink haired lady who sits on a golden throne while asking poor people to donate money so they can buy more satellite time...
I'm Christian but I have yet to see what "Good" those Evangelical groups have done in the world,...
Personally I think Martin Luther would be ashamed to find out what has happened to his Reformation.
As for the slogans... again, already here "What would Jesus Do" !!!! much like "Rock the Vote", is spoken with about just as much conviction by the people it is targeted at.
Ya know... back in Roman times Churches of all sorts were much like Corps.. more like organized Crime families really.. and would do whatever it took to gain new members. Cons, lies, violence... whatever to get the donations in their coffers instead of the other guy's.
FYI, yes Churches have been pushing the limits of politcal involvement recently... pushing pretty hard in fact
BUT, if you take away the separation of Church & State vis-a-vis, begin taxing Churches... treating them like businesses or corporations, then you better not come complaining when they begin behaving like the aformentioned.
Be careful what you wish for.
Churches are HUGE institutions and if we start treating them like businesses... well... just think about it. The biggest franchises out there.. in most cities there are how many churches? 100, 200? You probably don't notice how many there are cause you're not looking for them but they are more prevalent than McDonalds or Starbucks and bring in way more money.
Next thing you know, the Churches are going public to huge IPOs and a decade of acquistitions and mergers happens... and they become even more powerful.
I won't go any further but let your imagination run wild, then realize it would be much more extreme than even that.
"institutions of higher education"
If this is your view of American colleges... you are entirely mistaken. For one thing, we're not talking about colleges here.. we're talking about Universities... now to move past the semantics...
Universities are businesses, not educational institutions at all. Like any business they must compete for revenue with the rest of their industry. Some compete by being the best available educational resources of learning for their high paying customers... and others compete by providing the best available 'socialization' resources for their customers (aka students, their parents and the foundations that pay for those who can't afford the high tuitions).
Including such things as music services, internet access to the www (as opposed to just the local network), festivals, pubs, stores, cafes and all other things that a person in their 20s might consider appealing while they are stuck for 4 years learning how to be a good employee...
I won't even go into the fact that modern humans are not ADULTS at 18 or 22 or even 24 anymore... as a society we've pretty much pushed the age back to the early 30s by now, at least in America.
Are you a Taoist? you must be with a handle like Jesus_666... in any case, great post!
much props J_6
I remember protesting dihydrogen oxide back in the sixties... to very little effect.. we're all still completely addicted to this heinous chemical. Where does it end? Oh the humanity....
huh... AltiVec is a vector processing unit correct? My understanding of OS X windowing is that it's all vectors using a pdf rendering engine through core graphics now of course for hardware accelleration via the GPU. What I'm saying is that a GPU could easily be used for such encoding/decoding tasks as well, it's a very specific task and doesn't need a whole co-processor to itself if a portion of the GPU could do the work as well.
Nobody mentioned writing their name on the moon... ala:
"So does the moon read 'CHA' yet?"
or
"Finally Chairface Chippendale has revealed his plot!"
All anyone could think of was an 80s movie?
netioning the GPU is a great point... seeing as how OS X now has it's Core Graphics routines which go directly to the GPU for a whole hell of a lot of it's rendering performance, in both the UI for the Finder/windowing system and it looks like increasingly in all pre and post proecessing of graphics generally across apps. So the question is whether the AltiVec portion of the PPC will even be relied upon in the future.. in fact it looks like Apple has purposefully developed away from relying on the altivec unit in preference to using the GPU for doing vector transforms and other intense rendering calculations.
All this leads me to believe that they are both improving the speed and efficiency of the OS and hedging against reliance on PPC tech for general computing by tying their system more to GPUs than CPUs... a trend that looks to continue.
It's apparently been 'fixed', whatever that means, in Safari 2.0... cause I don't see any artifacts in that example. Just FYI
You should join another 12 step program.... the one you're in doesn't look like it's helping much.
;-p
One of these should help you out
http://www.theclairefiles.com/ms12steps.html
http://www.cio.com/archive/010102/shop.html
Have them send you a list of companies they've done work for with a personal number for their contact there and ask questions. You should be able to tell if they are a team worth paying good money for pretty quickly.... ie: did they educate their customer enough to tell you anything of use.. if so then they probably know what they are doing... what sort of maintenance contract did they propose... is the cusotmer satisfied with their followup work as much as the initial development effort... read belwo for more good questions to ask.
What it really all comes down to is "how badly do you want it?"
It doesn't matter how much money you spend or what talent you have available... if you want it enough the money and talent will come to you. This applies in all things in life.
dude... it's "Open Says ME!"
what, you think they were referring to Sesame seeds or something?
on the other hand that's not a bad way to create a good passphrase..
like "Warez Tha Beef?" or "Your eh butt whole"
of course l33t have been doing it for years now apparently...
I'll second the other responder.... CSS has plenty of control... in fact I wish that Quark and InDesign would support CSS for object positioning... then I could define placement as well as typestyle...
Most of the problems probably come from rendering issues not spec issues....
Try working with SVG for a while and be happy for basic CSS+HTML
Okay, so you've been here for 21 years huh... I call bullshit. Can I have some money now?
Where do you live in the US? I grew up in a mobile home where my dad paid bills month to month but was self-employed as a custom picture framer. We lived in a small rural town in South Carolina with about 200 residents... the schools served 3 towns in the area - we had to ride a bus an hour to get to school each morning and to get home each afternoon.
But those schools were top notch and I got a very good education, honors program sponsored by Apple computers where I learned Basic and logic diagrams in the second grade, we had a spanish teacher for one class a day... plenty of computers to do work on and intramural sports, soccer, football, baseball, basketball, etc....
Point is that between public funding and a little corporate bonus I had a very good education which prepared me for higher learning and opened my mind to opportunity. Not everyone in the school took advantage of it... lots of kids were more interested in goofing off or playing hookie. I have no idea what happened to them but they were offered every opportunity...
The high school had classes in Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and German... this is a school with less than 2,000 students - what we called a 2A school (it goes up to 5A with over 4500 students). There were plenty of scholarships available to anyone who cared.
I moved to California when I was 14 though so I ended up in a much larger high school in a very diverse area with a much more wealthy economy... the school was less than I'd hoped for.. basically just a GPA mill where over half the students needed tutors just to pass their grade because the teachers didn't teach... so having lots of money around doesn't guarantee quality of life.
The US is what the people make of it. It is a land of opportunity and if you work hard you can take advantage of what's available... or you can just take it all for granted or worse yet you can slack off and fall through the cracks into a social slum and end up poor and ignorant.
So bitch and moan about missing out on it all, just realize that it is there for anyone who wants it bad enough. It doesn't take money, it takes hard work. Just because you're a resident it doesn't mean you're a citizen, even if you were born here... citizenship is a privilege you must earn, not an entitlement you are born with.
I didn't mean to throw common sense out the window... airtight from the kitchen is what I should have said.... sure have a filtered air intake and an exhaust of some sort.
;-p
Guess I got ahead of myself there a little though, assuming some things would be assumed
thanks for completing my post though.
It's small size and available bluetooth for wireless keyboard, wireless card builtin, not sticking out the back, etc. etc. seems perfect for this application....
Also if you put the keyboard and mouse into a air-tight cabinet or drawer of some sort you won't need to worry about whether they are themselves damage proof, ie: make a pullout drawer with a hidden surface on a roller track.. put a rubber seal around the drawer and keep it closed when not in use. If you go with wireless you won't have to worry about cords... also put the Mac mini under it in a air-tight cabinet under the drawer...
Use screensaver skins over the display if possible (don't know if they would work with touch sensitive, pressure sensitive for sure but IR grid screens may be affected)... the screensaver skins come in many sizes and are popular for covering laptop screens and peel off when they get too dirty.
well.. my 0.2
"when the sunspot storm turns away from the earth, pointing its radiation elsewhere."
This part of the summary post seems to suggest that it's not just quacks who are geocentric... who ever heard of the sun or it's sunspot 'turning away from the earth'... I was thinking maybe that the earth would move away from the sunspot instead,, you know as it orbits the sun. The radiation will stay where it's at but we will move out of it's path.
Or you could buy CDs.... then rip them to whatever format you want... you can even buy CDs online these days... ;-p
And this surprises you somehow?
Nearly every major leap in technology in every discipline has been funded for and by the US military.
After the fact it is commercialized and improved upon so as to become a consumer attractive product, meaning smaller, more energy efficient and less buggy... iteratively over several generations so that by the time we see it it doesn't look anything like the original.
The latest trend is for the military to start buying these cheaper more efficient versions from commercial suppliers... but the original tech is still developed early by the military and military contractors/university programs.
I wonder how many of those employees came down with non-specific nerve damage from the diesel fumes in their offices...
and it wouldn't even install.... I double clicked an' everything... My Powerbook doesn't have any virii or adware that I know about but I sure would like to find out if it does....
Maybe it's not for Macs? Do I need to run VirtualPC to use this new miraculous anti-software?
Well, I've never had any of the problems my friends tell me about every other week or so, so maybe I'm okay.
Learn how to evaluate a complicated mathematical expression. There are examples you can use everywhere but if you don't know how to read the math symbols you won't know how to apply them.
Know how logic works. Conditional statements are what makes a web application do almost everything it does. If this condition, do (a), if some other condition do (b), else do (c). You can copy and paste code to get some functionality to happen but if you don't know how it's logic operates you won't be able to customize it to your particular needs.
Compose things, don't just throw them together. Composition includes balance, hierarchy of importance, and purpose. Use composition when creating the look of a site and when designing the architecture and user flow.... composition tells your audience how to use your site and what is important and what is they should pay attention to.
Marketing and Business skills will help you understand your clients needs as well as aid you in your own personal success whether you work with a company or on your own.
Everything else you learn now will most likely be old-fashioned or worse yet EOLed by the time you get into your career... even if you plan to start working in 2 years... languages come and go, applications change all the time and new ways of doing things are constantly being invented or 'innovated'.