"'Whom' as an object form of that pronoun has been recessive for at least five hundred years, and is practically extinct (except as object of a preposition) in more or less any colloquial speech and in all except fairly formal writing. (2) There is a good linguistic explanation for this situation, which will long-term-predictably lead to the complete demise of 'whom'." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Who_(pronoun)
They might get a few more people buying Macs if they can dual boot them,
but will suffer a financial hit when someone gets it running on commodity hardware.
Interestingly you can already boot OSX on commodity hardware PearPC, it just isn't that fast yet, but quite usable for testing and playing aorund with.
If Apple does turn out to use straight pentiums or similar then the speed would be greatly improved.
I forgot Google's other major innovation. Cutting the homepage back to basics and making search the centre of what they offered, rather than pushing search off to the side like Yahoo. MSN and the rest were doing back in 1998.
Google basically reversed the trend to flood the search portals with Flash ads, and X-10 popup windows like Yahoo were doing.
Dejas only went back to 1995 though didn't they? Google's innovation was to extend the archive back to 1982. Granted Henry Spencer's tapes were used, but no one else has put them online complete back to 1982 as far as I know.
What about Page Rank? That was a pretty significant innovation in search engine technology. Can you remember how bad Yahoo and Altavista's results where in 1998?
Google groups basically archiving all of usenet back to 1982 or something.
Gmail basically started the whole AJAX trend recently, plus pushed all the other email providers to boost their puny 1-5MB free accounts upto the GB range.
Google maps caused a stir with such rich web apps too.
I'd say there's some decent innovations coming from Google.
I wish Mozilla would support VML. I know VML is outdated, but IE has built in support for it right now.
If VML was added to Mozilla we could immediately develop nice rich looking web graphics with a tiny amount of bandwidth.
Because you can only record the station your radio would be tuned to, whereas the radioShark can schedule recordings on different stations and automatically tune to them.
What you are talking about is CSV. CSV is great, but it's only any good for table structured data. You can't implement a tree or any arbitrary nested structure like you can in XML.
We shouldn't do it because those brains would be much happier in human bodies than in a dogs body.
A human body gives you posable thumbs, normally the same height as everybody else, the ability to walk and use your hands at the same time, to see in full colour etc. Plus the ability to live around 70-80 years instead of 10-20 years for dogs.
The other problems with yinyl are all those crackles from dust and scratches, the static noises, and the rumble from the drive, or the 50/60Hz tones buzzing from the pickup.
Interesting, did you meet the deadline okay after working 36 hours straight? (reminds me of my University days working 36 hours to complete an assignment)
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I think Longhorn will probably have full png support (at least the alpha channel) as IE 7 will support alpha channels in pngs: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/22/410963 .aspx
I here that! I'm also mighty sick of Morning Musume and the Sofmap shop's music.
"'Whom' as an object form of that pronoun has been recessive for at least five hundred years, and is practically extinct (except as object of a preposition) in more or less any colloquial speech and in all except fairly formal writing. (2) There is a good linguistic explanation for this situation, which will long-term-predictably lead to the complete demise of 'whom'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Who_(pronoun)
It differs in that most religions aren't derived from a series of increasingly lame fictional movies.
Interestingly you can already boot OSX on commodity hardware PearPC, it just isn't that fast yet, but quite usable for testing and playing aorund with.
If Apple does turn out to use straight pentiums or similar then the speed would be greatly improved.
I forgot Google's other major innovation. Cutting the homepage back to basics and making search the centre of what they offered, rather than pushing search off to the side like Yahoo. MSN and the rest were doing back in 1998.
Google basically reversed the trend to flood the search portals with Flash ads, and X-10 popup windows like Yahoo were doing.
Dejas only went back to 1995 though didn't they? Google's innovation was to extend the archive back to 1982. Granted Henry Spencer's tapes were used, but no one else has put them online complete back to 1982 as far as I know.
No innovations?
What about Page Rank? That was a pretty significant innovation in search engine technology. Can you remember how bad Yahoo and Altavista's results where in 1998?
Google groups basically archiving all of usenet back to 1982 or something.
Gmail basically started the whole AJAX trend recently, plus pushed all the other email providers to boost their puny 1-5MB free accounts upto the GB range.
Google maps caused a stir with such rich web apps too.
I'd say there's some decent innovations coming from Google.
You can't be a real Australian. Nobody has said "drongo" for about 30 years here. Drongo is about the same vintage as "swell" or "twit".
Sorry to nitpick but Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television tube, not television itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_T._Farnsworth#T elevision_Tube/
The inventor of the first working television was John Logie Baird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird/
Horses were never banned from motorways. Motorways were new roads specifically created for cars in the 50s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway
"Eggheads, what do they know." - Homer Simpson
I wish Mozilla would support VML. I know VML is outdated, but IE has built in support for it right now. If VML was added to Mozilla we could immediately develop nice rich looking web graphics with a tiny amount of bandwidth.
A PIII is fine. I have even run iTunes nicely on a PII 266Mhz with 128MB of RAM.
Because you can only record the station your radio would be tuned to, whereas the radioShark can schedule recordings on different stations and automatically tune to them.
And the new Google OS is actually based on AmigaDOS!
XML is easier to parse, since I can use the XML parser that comes with the browser's DOM implementation, or my languages API.
What was wrong with CDATA? I thought you could embed binary into XML that way.
What you are talking about is CSV. CSV is great, but it's only any good for table structured data. You can't implement a tree or any arbitrary nested structure like you can in XML.
Come to think of it a human crossed with a dog had already been done.
We shouldn't do it because those brains would be much happier in human bodies than in a dogs body.
A human body gives you posable thumbs, normally the same height as everybody else, the ability to walk and use your hands at the same time, to see in full colour etc. Plus the ability to live around 70-80 years instead of 10-20 years for dogs.
The other problems with yinyl are all those crackles from dust and scratches, the static noises, and the rumble from the drive, or the 50/60Hz tones buzzing from the pickup.
Interesting, did you meet the deadline okay after working 36 hours straight? (reminds me of my University days working 36 hours to complete an assignment)
Why do you think that a religous person would assume that people who died in the tsunamis would have committed a sin?