It doesn't have to reload a bunch of stuff to bring up an email. Deleting is easier. Attaching is easier.
Ever tried Yahoo's new email client? Try it, it's as good as any desktop app I've ever used. This Ajax stuff has come a long way in the last few years.
My only gripe is that if you have 2000 messages in your inbox it becomes excruciatingly slow.
This thing has to carry heavy batteries or fuel, limiting its range. And it's ungodly loud. A small dirigible is silent and I imagine you can make one pretty small given how lightweight today's surveillance tech is.
Sounds like a great argument against helicopters too.
Listening to Al Gore babble over and over about global warming, and then seeing him act in complete contradiction to his preachings is what is wrong with the global arming argument.
I know. It's got nothing to do with the Greenland ice sheet diluting the Atlantic, nothing to do with the ice-core record of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere nothing to do with the hockey stick graph of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and nothing to do with the flooding of coastal areas. It's all about Al Gore's electricity bill.
So, about 300 people a year are going to turn up for the reverse experience of bungee jumping. And each one of them's going to spend a shitlot of money on tourist products? "New Mexico was so bad I left the planet!" t-shirts? Unless they're planning to sell replica spaceships that actually go into space at $3m per boat, what the hell are they going to do to make tourist money?
Quite right. Maintaining a spaceport or the R&D facilities that are sure to spring up around it isn't going to generate any jobs or wealth. The spaceships are going to design and maintain themselves, you know.
Spot on. The best approch to the global warming situation is to turn it into a right-wing mud-slinging match using rumours about Al Gore's electricity bill as ammunition. Who needs peer-reviewed science journals when you can tune into talk radio up and down the AM dial and listen to hate radio?
But seriously, a warmer planet is not automatically a bad thing. It's doesn't cause mass drought and famine. This is FUD.
They want something, and they want people to believe their reports so they can get it. Scaring people with doom-saying is the easiest way, apparently.
If only the tin-foil hat crew was as vocal when the WMDs in Iraq were poised to rain down on the Eastern seaboard.
If you were able to watch UK Channel 4's "The Great Global Warming Swindle" [channel4.com], it's been pulled from YouTube for copyright issues. Pity. It was spot on.
It was later discredited as being full of misrepresentations, made-up statistics, bad science, anecdotes, and quotes attributed to 'scientists' who turned out to not really be experts in their field and had ties to the oil industry. That 'documentary' contradicted the vast majority of the scientific consensus. No disrespect to your 30 years of meteorology experience, but you're out of step with the national science academies of all G8 nations plus China and India, as well as the US National Research Council, the American Meteorological Society, the US Federal Climate Change Science Program, the American Geophysical Union, and just about every other scientific organisation except for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
From the artice in the Independent:
A Channel 4 documentary that claimed global warming is a swindle was itself flawed with major errors which seriously undermine the programme's credibility, according to an investigation by The Independent.
The Great Global Warming Swindle, was based on graphs that were distorted, mislabelled or just plain wrong. The graphs were nevertheless used to attack the credibility and honesty of climate scientists.
A graph central to the programme's thesis, purporting to show variations in global temperatures over the past century, claimed to show that global warming was not linked with industrial emissions of carbon dioxide. Yet the graph was not what it seemed.
Other graphs used out-of-date information or data that was shown some years ago to be wrong. Yet the programme makers claimed the graphs demonstrated that orthodox climate science was a conspiratorial "lie" foisted on the public.
Channel 4 yesterday distanced itself from the programme, referring this newspaper's inquiries to a public relations consultant working on behalf of Wag TV, the production company behind the documentary.
The United States today does not have the economics going for rail transport that some other countries have. That is why we don't have the rail transport systems that other countries have. It doesn't make economical sense.
I don't think anyone's suggesting a high-speed train from NY to San Francisco. There are parts of the US (like the Eastern seaboard, California, etc.) where there are large cities reasonably close to each other at distances where high-speed rail would be feasible. It would make perfect economic sense in those areas.
The real stumbling blocks include the lobbying power of the motor industry, and the fragmented local government structure on places like California where it would take a miracle to get a straight railway line through the backyards of all the NIMBY merchants.
Is why in some variants of English is math pluralized to maths? It seems not to be the case with most other things, for example they didn't say "musics". Where I grew up (southwest USA) it was always math, singular, which makes sense to be. Though there are different facets, it is all the same field much like there are different styles of music, but it is all music.
What's with the plural version then?
Music is a bad comparison. Music is a singular and is not abbreviated. Mathematics is a plural and is abbreviated, hence the plural abbreviation.
I was more than a Marvel than a DC man so you'll have to pardon my ignorance, but didn't DC do a big reality-shifting relignment of all their stories at one point?
I agree that this sounds suspiciously like an attempt to temporarily 'kill' a major character to boost sales. I just hope that his ressurection is better thought out than Spock's.
find someone who actually uses in that context rather than simply a bastardization of the word 'orientation' instead of using 'orient' as they should.
That's a bit like saying 'petrol' is a bastardised version of 'gas.' I was always taught to 'orientate' my map. Makes more sense than 'Orient' your map, because then 'Orientation' should be 'Oriention.' Similar word to 'rotate,' you don't just 'rote.' I'm surprised you're getting so upset about this, must be a UK English v US English thing.
Are you kidding? Fry's "does anyone speak English here" Electronics seem to go out of their way to provide the worst possible buying experience. Aside from the cacaphony of music coming from three or four different sources, their staff don't seem to last long enough to know where anything is in the store, to say nothing of know anything about the products. I once walked the entire store looking for something, and when I tracked down someone to help me, she led me around the store on the same walk while she looked for it. I have been known to walk up and down the length of the store about three times in the process of getting some shipping organised. Not only do they not know where anything is in their own store, they don't even know who does what.
As for Comp USA, I once tried to spend $500 on a laser printer in there. I walked out after being left standing for twenty minutes by a clueless worker who disappeared into the warehouse for fifteen minutes and came back out into the store looking for help from his coworkers without telling me what was going on.
Of course the best solution would almost completely abstract the presentation from the data. That would allow the programmers and designers to work independently and do what each does best.
Nice in theory, but you need good communication between the two to get the right results. We once had a 'web designer' who came from a print background and when we had to have data generated dynamically on a web page he asked why we couldn't just use PDF format. He didn't get the concept of dynamically-generated web pages.
Far better to have graphic designers with some web knowledge, and web specialists with some graphic design knowledge. The overlap in skills is where the good results come through.
Aesthetic sense, "good taste", whatever you want to call it, is something which you either have intrinsically or you do not. Most people do not and will not no matter whose "set of guiding principles" are employed.
I disagree. I used to be clueless about good graphic design until I teamed up with a specialist artist. Now I wince at the sight of pixealated images, badly-kearned text, bad contrasts, cramped layouts, text bumping against the edge of its container, clashing rather than complementary colours, etc. There are reasons why some things look good and others do not. These are principles that CAN be taught. If they couldn't, art schools would not exist since artists would be born with their artistic ability already programmed into them from birth.
But who the hell can afford to live there anymore?
Prolly the people who live there. I still work in the valley but live in a decent-sized apartment in what's supposed to be one of the wealthiest areas of San Francisco, but it's actually quite affordable for renters.
not to dig or anything, but it sounds like instead of making your css pages work, you have taken the easy way out
And not to dig back or anything, but I spent about a week trying to get the page to work before deciding I had better things to spend my time on. Using tables I got it rendered in a few minutes. Right now the rewards are just not big enough to justify this effort. For layout changes, Dreamweaver will proliferate them throughout the site. Might not be as slick as CSS, but it works. Sometimes the 'easy way out' is what you need.
CSS is great in theory and should make sites easier to maintain, but in my experience all this advantage is lost when hacking to get IE to support it. I seem to have to support IE OR the rest of the world's web browsers, but I can't seem to get certain pages to support both. I've had to revert back to HTML tables for my page layouts, and I'll be sticking with that until a more CSS-friendly IE becomes more widespread. I just spend a bit of time familiarising myself with CSS and using it for text styling and some positioning within my tables. I'm sure in a year or two it'll become feasible to use CSS exclusively, and I'm quite looking forward to it.
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Carry on.
Spot on. The best approch to the global warming situation is to turn it into a right-wing mud-slinging match using rumours about Al Gore's electricity bill as ammunition. Who needs peer-reviewed science journals when you can tune into talk radio up and down the AM dial and listen to hate radio?
From the artice in the Independent:
The real stumbling blocks include the lobbying power of the motor industry, and the fragmented local government structure on places like California where it would take a miracle to get a straight railway line through the backyards of all the NIMBY merchants.
I was more than a Marvel than a DC man so you'll have to pardon my ignorance, but didn't DC do a big reality-shifting relignment of all their stories at one point?
I agree that this sounds suspiciously like an attempt to temporarily 'kill' a major character to boost sales. I just hope that his ressurection is better thought out than Spock's.
I don't 'bastardise' anything. I use existing words.
Far better to have graphic designers with some web knowledge, and web specialists with some graphic design knowledge. The overlap in skills is where the good results come through.
iPod dominates the music player because it's a good product with some slick marketing. Windoze dominates desktop OSs by an accident of history.
CSS is great in theory and should make sites easier to maintain, but in my experience all this advantage is lost when hacking to get IE to support it. I seem to have to support IE OR the rest of the world's web browsers, but I can't seem to get certain pages to support both. I've had to revert back to HTML tables for my page layouts, and I'll be sticking with that until a more CSS-friendly IE becomes more widespread. I just spend a bit of time familiarising myself with CSS and using it for text styling and some positioning within my tables. I'm sure in a year or two it'll become feasible to use CSS exclusively, and I'm quite looking forward to it.
If I were still a student I'd read the wiki article, check out the citations, read the cited articles, and then cite them instead of the wiki.