Uh... if you're in business with a website, then I personally would say you should make the site at least vaguely usable in IE 4 and Netscape 4. Preferably, anyone back to the version 2 browsers should be able to get something out of it (although obviously severely restricted).
I presume you don't have a commercial site if you're not even concerned about IE5.5.
I find it interesting that none of the CSS ZenGarden style sheets I tried resized at all with the browser window, and most of them coped poorly or not at all with large text (many became unusable).
Why is it corruption to be open to new commercial ideas? To me it's more evidence that NASA is a fossilised bueuracracy. Of course the Russians being strapped for funds have a great motivator to be open minded, but still. That's sort of the point: if NASA was forced to operate with less lavish budgets, new possibilites might suddenly "appear".
Hey, that's really interesting! Good to see someone who kept his sense of fun while becoming wealthy, and built something entertaining. I would love to visit... secret passages, excellent...
Space offers extreme opportunities in manufacturing, research, power generation, medical studies, propulsion research, materials science, and a multitude of other investment possibilities.
Same old, same old. It doesn't really offer any of these things. Space isn't a magical fairy land where energy is free and the laws of physics are different. If anything, I think the various space stations have shown that there isn't anything particular exciting to make or research in space, just an awful lot of work, energy and technology even to just stay alive, or get there and back.
The one big thing it does offer is that lots of people want to go there: tourism and adventure. Hence the only things showing signs of commercial life are tourism and adventure companies.
I too want to go to space, but I have come to accept that there isn't anything particular interesting to DO there. Science Fiction made it all seem very exciting but most of those things don't seem likely to happen: warp drives, exotic but livable planets, aliens, new technologies.
Possibly in the far distant future terraforming and colonisation, but the economics have to change before that will happen on a significant scale (ie. big enough to be self-sustaining if Earth goes away).
I suppose that it would be possible to do some propulsion research like nuclear drives, but for that we have to get out of orbital space (for safety) and be able to build things entirely in space - something that hasn't happened at all yet.
The only reason that they aren't replacing the current batch of chips fast, is that all chip design and testing processes are built around clocked CPUs.
Another way of saying this is that basically, we can't really make them. The processes for designing and testing are enormous and will take years to change over to asynchronous. And most likely we will find that there are horrible problems in large asynch processors too...
Asynch also doesn't seem to offer any actual higher speeds, just that different parts can work at their own speed. That doesn't necessarily sound like a convincing win.
The iTunes store is not a webapp (even if it uses some web-ish technologies underneath). You have to download a large platform-specific application and install it.
Admittedly Google is getting into this kind of thing too with Picasa, but they have shown a strong preference for real (AJAX) web applications.
Don't forget that while the users may have relatively small needs, just wanting to type some reports and add a few headings, it's typical now for IT to build in some simple workflow. Such as automatically filling in this and that field, adding standard headers of different kinds, getting things on/off servers, connecting to a database for some tables, etc.
All that stuff is typically written in VBA for applications. And none of it works the same on StarOffice.
Every so often I go to try iTunes, and find they still want me to install their 20MB browser/player just to see what artists are available. Then I stop.
And we can't go anywhere cause we havn't done enough research into manned space flight?
Not really. We could go somewhere now, but what is the point (aside from making good soundbites in politics), and is it enough to justify the cost?
If we can find some new propulsion technologies that makes the mere act of getting to space a more realistic cost, then it might be worth going some places just because we can. At the moment, it seems too be excessive cost for little benefit.
The only risk is that if the comedy is a bit sarcastic or whatever, someone later reading can think it's serious and get tied in knots. So they better be obvious jokes, I guess:)
Are you sure? Surely some file systems can also be corrupted beyond repair; you can only repair where enough information actually exists (ie. redundancy). Journalling guarantees you a way out of that, because there is guaranteed redundancy for the things that were in progress.
That's pretty normal. Companies settle all the time because they are losing money and unable to continue the litigation. It's only a difference of degree.
Also, continuing it means that Novell, IBM and others must continue wasting huge amounts of time and money dealing with this. I don't think they are necessarily heroes, it's just a waste. Part of USAs problem, some people think: the only really productive part of the economy is the legal system:)
I'd like to see a selective install that (like Linux installs) actually lets you strip out all the cruft. No Outlook, MSN, Move Maker, photo stuff, games, etc. Even allow you to choose a Win-2000 style interface at install time.
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I'm not worried about IE5.5 and earlier
Uh... if you're in business with a website, then I personally would say you should make the site at least vaguely usable in IE 4 and Netscape 4. Preferably, anyone back to the version 2 browsers should be able to get something out of it (although obviously severely restricted).
I presume you don't have a commercial site if you're not even concerned about IE5.5.
Didn't I see you playing UT2004 the other day? Or am I going mad...
Why does the search box on your site sit partway off the page in Mozilla 1.7.8?
:D
Never mind, it works ok in IE
I find it interesting that none of the CSS ZenGarden style sheets I tried resized at all with the browser window, and most of them coped poorly or not at all with large text (many became unusable).
Fair point, but I think we all understand we are talking about things beyond what we do now, ie. reasons for advancing beyond more satellites.
Currently all the lower-end cards in any given year are passively cooled.
You do have to accept the slower cards, because the fast ones will always be pushing the envelope and therefore make use of active cooling.
I run a 9800Pro with the Zalman passive cooler, seems pretty fine.
You do understand that global warming is about average temperatures, don't you? You understand what you're blithely dismissing right?
If they use Gzip, then all their customers are suddenly using much less bandwidth and they make less money.
... not very likely.
Of course this would not be true if their bandwidth charges were the same as their costs
Why is it corruption to be open to new commercial ideas? To me it's more evidence that NASA is a fossilised bueuracracy. Of course the Russians being strapped for funds have a great motivator to be open minded, but still. That's sort of the point: if NASA was forced to operate with less lavish budgets, new possibilites might suddenly "appear".
Hey, that's really interesting! Good to see someone who kept his sense of fun while becoming wealthy, and built something entertaining. I would love to visit... secret passages, excellent...
Space offers extreme opportunities in manufacturing, research, power generation, medical studies, propulsion research, materials science, and a multitude of other investment possibilities.
Same old, same old. It doesn't really offer any of these things. Space isn't a magical fairy land where energy is free and the laws of physics are different. If anything, I think the various space stations have shown that there isn't anything particular exciting to make or research in space, just an awful lot of work, energy and technology even to just stay alive, or get there and back.
The one big thing it does offer is that lots of people want to go there: tourism and adventure. Hence the only things showing signs of commercial life are tourism and adventure companies.
I too want to go to space, but I have come to accept that there isn't anything particular interesting to DO there. Science Fiction made it all seem very exciting but most of those things don't seem likely to happen: warp drives, exotic but livable planets, aliens, new technologies.
Possibly in the far distant future terraforming and colonisation, but the economics have to change before that will happen on a significant scale (ie. big enough to be self-sustaining if Earth goes away).
I suppose that it would be possible to do some propulsion research like nuclear drives, but for that we have to get out of orbital space (for safety) and be able to build things entirely in space - something that hasn't happened at all yet.
The only reason that they aren't replacing the current batch of chips fast, is that all chip design and testing processes are built around clocked CPUs.
Another way of saying this is that basically, we can't really make them. The processes for designing and testing are enormous and will take years to change over to asynchronous. And most likely we will find that there are horrible problems in large asynch processors too...
Asynch also doesn't seem to offer any actual higher speeds, just that different parts can work at their own speed. That doesn't necessarily sound like a convincing win.
The iTunes store is not a webapp (even if it uses some web-ish technologies underneath). You have to download a large platform-specific application and install it.
Admittedly Google is getting into this kind of thing too with Picasa, but they have shown a strong preference for real (AJAX) web applications.
Don't forget that while the users may have relatively small needs, just wanting to type some reports and add a few headings, it's typical now for IT to build in some simple workflow. Such as automatically filling in this and that field, adding standard headers of different kinds, getting things on/off servers, connecting to a database for some tables, etc.
All that stuff is typically written in VBA for applications. And none of it works the same on StarOffice.
Every so often I go to try iTunes, and find they still want me to install their 20MB browser/player just to see what artists are available. Then I stop.
One of the biggest selling games ever, that pretty much defined adventures for many years, not on the list?
Well, fine. They made a fair attempt at listing the games that they know and like, but it's obviously nothing more than that (one group's opinion).
It would be possible to make a very interesting top 100 games list, but you would have to think about it and research it.
Leaving aside the political issues, because we know what the answers to those will be;
Describe for us a typical day in you and your labs work. What do you actually, physically do?
And we can't go anywhere cause we havn't done enough research into manned space flight?
Not really. We could go somewhere now, but what is the point (aside from making good soundbites in politics), and is it enough to justify the cost?
If we can find some new propulsion technologies that makes the mere act of getting to space a more realistic cost, then it might be worth going some places just because we can. At the moment, it seems too be excessive cost for little benefit.
The only risk is that if the comedy is a bit sarcastic or whatever, someone later reading can think it's serious and get tied in knots. :)
So they better be obvious jokes, I guess
What a great market that is. Better to kill something than let someone else make a little money on it.
Are you sure? Surely some file systems can also be corrupted beyond repair; you can only repair where enough information actually exists (ie. redundancy). Journalling guarantees you a way out of that, because there is guaranteed redundancy for the things that were in progress.
That's pretty normal. Companies settle all the time because they are losing money and unable to continue the litigation. It's only a difference of degree.
:)
Also, continuing it means that Novell, IBM and others must continue wasting huge amounts of time and money dealing with this. I don't think they are necessarily heroes, it's just a waste. Part of USAs problem, some people think: the only really productive part of the economy is the legal system
Use Virtual PC or VMWare. Virtual PC comes with MSDN now (I think).
Remember, it's not a browser, it's a part of the operating system!
I'd like to see a selective install that (like Linux installs) actually lets you strip out all the cruft. No Outlook, MSN, Move Maker, photo stuff, games, etc. Even allow you to choose a Win-2000 style interface at install time.
Um, no. WinHelp was a bit of an abortion. HTMLHelp is a easier to use and develop for, not to mention more capable.