...the Shuttle entered the armosphere wrong end in (though one doesn't really have to imagine; ultimatelly the aerodynamic forces were what shred Columbia to pieces)
As for Apollo...yeah, it might have been good (though Soyuz has much larger volume to mass ratio; and it was also designed to be moon capable), but...ultimatelly it was scrapped, as you say; and that's it.
Last time I checked, unlimited Skype calling wasn't available for India... (number of people/how large part of world population they are is the most meaningfull number here)...oh well, good for you that it is.
For me, free and easy (most important to the other party) VoIP beats "unlimited" calling through Skype (which dooes have, unstated, limits...not to mention monthly fee) any day...
Are you for real? "Most regions" as in...most countries on the globe; Skype unlimited calling is available only in a few of them, in the rest you pay by the minute.
Can't exactly compare to free VoIP lasting half a night that I mentioned...
Unlimited calling through Skype to ordinary phones isn't available in most regions; plus, if it matters enough to set somebody distant up with free VoIP capability, it's usually in cases where the talk migh be long...like half a night or so.
Works at least as good as AdBlock + any proper list, light (no extension needed after all/uses build-in Opera features) and leaves almost no empty spaces.
One would think that with Jabber/XMPP and Jingle available that would be as easy as it gets, other than other group of people writing that portion of the app for your project... (but what's the point in maintaining a project then?)
So I take it that there IS finally some IM client which has Jingle implemented good enough that it's actually useable? With win32 Gtalk client?
(lack of proper Gtalk equivalent, with VoIP and "picture IM/previews" (video compatible with Gmail would be also mighty nice...) is basically the only thing that keeps me on Windows, apart from occasional game (though I can dualboot for that)
(when file beeing sent is a picture, it shows a preview in IM windows on both sides)
And while I can understand that nerds of all kind don't crave for voice & video, I can't understand why nobody implemented this "picture IM" functionality in any of the big Jabber clients...few of my anime-addicted buddies can't live without it. At least for one of them it's the only reason why Linux is out of the question.
And...similar for me, though I'd need full Gtalk equivalent (or at least...I prefer to think that I'll need it again;p )
I'm not sure how you can call Gtalk client "not good for anything", if its only downside is lack of video... (for me, other than video & Linux version, it's pretty much perfect IM)...especially since it's, you know, Jabber. So you can use server-side transports and have contacts from AIM (plus ICQ, MSN, what have you...) on your roster.
If only Skype was as good as Gtalk in VoIP implementation...sure, when connections are beefy, they're about equal.
But Skype can't even begin to compare to Gtalk when one party is on good old modem (the other on quite shitty, shared DSL), or when one uses GPRS connection... (two worst case scenarios that worked perfectly for me, though I suspect it would also work great with two modem users)
As a bonus, it also has waaaaay more no-bs/easier interface; very usefull when setting up a call between you and some distant party who isn't very computer-litterate.
Hm, you sure are aware of great "marketing" effort Firefox has enjoyed, however I'd say that the title of your post doesn't have much to do with it's succes (Opera, for example, is available on greater number of practical platforms), as well as its oss nature (people don't care about that - there's no difference anyway when sitting on top of closed OS...)
So...you want to imply that a typical Home instalation is used in the same way (few choices here...locked down vs. working as administrator for example) and by the same people as typical Pro installation?
You might be onto something, Europe has both large percentage of manual transmission cars and alternative browsers... (IE usage in my country dropped below 50% some time ago...)
At least Secunia states that it has less volnurabilities, both fixed and unfixed, than FF to which you switch people... (though probably in some time Google Chrome will be the best choice for switching normal people; just has to mature a bit/prove its security record)
In most of central & eastern Europe it's quite common, for example in my country it has 8% (FF has 42% and IE 48% - yup, below 50, so this/. article isn't exactly ave inspiring to me).
It's best performing in Ukraine, where it has 30% (IE 47%, FF 21% - yup, lower than Opera; but both grow at about the same rate, leading to the best possible, IMHO, situation with browsers - roughly equal split - IF THERE WERE ONLY THREE OF THEM...:/ (though Ukraine has also relatively high percentage of Webkit/KHTML - 2%)). Russia is supposedly even better for Opera, though I don't have numbers. Generally Opera seems to be popular in countries where people don't change their computers too often (so they can see clearly how fast & lean it is) and also rely almost exlusivelly on some technical relative, not salesman/etc....
BTW @this last (2%) number - I could just as easily ask "what's the deal with Safari? Nobody uses it after all...", from what I see in large part of Europe popularity of Opera & Safari is reversed in comparison to US...
What's more energy consuming, full blown furnace or two running fans in heat exchanger/ventilation? (heck, you could run them off a hamster probably;P )
Actually, I can even imagine exercise bike-like backup ventilation, "run" occassionaly during outage, to be able to keep down the rate of temperature loss even more - those houses keep the heat so good that occupants/home animals are quite significant contribution. Especially ones that are exercising.
I'm not sure about N64...initially I was totally in favor of it, but when digging deeper - I actually disliked the GFX/effects of almost every N64 game (there were few exceptions of course).
It seems N64, in my case, was a victim of its "technical merits", with almost every game using the same, nice, "high quality" effects...which didn't really fit AT ALL! (mostly bi/trilinear filtering applied to low resolution textures, making every game soap-like) So one could question if those merits were merits at all...
OTOH...many PS1 games had to be creative with their textures (some using NICER LOOKING (for me, because it wasn't soap like) software filtering), had to be really good in pure arts department.
But I guess I'm weird, I still really like the crude, rough look typical of PS1 games (not the same as todays brown/green/gray!) and I also thought filtering looked bad for a long, long time (before textures became high-res) - I think it messes with my perception of perspective.
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Well, of course - but you know perfectly well that by "wrong end" I've meant ~"opposite to the way it's suppose to do it" ;p.
Definatelly much more rough than ballistic reentry in Soyuz...
...the Shuttle entered the armosphere wrong end in (though one doesn't really have to imagine; ultimatelly the aerodynamic forces were what shred Columbia to pieces)
As for Apollo...yeah, it might have been good (though Soyuz has much larger volume to mass ratio; and it was also designed to be moon capable), but...ultimatelly it was scrapped, as you say; and that's it.
Last time I checked, unlimited Skype calling wasn't available for India... (number of people/how large part of world population they are is the most meaningfull number here) ...oh well, good for you that it is.
For me, free and easy (most important to the other party) VoIP beats "unlimited" calling through Skype (which dooes have, unstated, limits...not to mention monthly fee) any day...
Are you for real? "Most regions" as in...most countries on the globe; Skype unlimited calling is available only in a few of them, in the rest you pay by the minute.
Can't exactly compare to free VoIP lasting half a night that I mentioned...
Unlimited calling through Skype to ordinary phones isn't available in most regions; plus, if it matters enough to set somebody distant up with free VoIP capability, it's usually in cases where the talk migh be long...like half a night or so.
...no reason for Gnome to exist anymore! ;)
Personally I'd simply settle with better implementation...
Or, major video sites could embrace video playback capabilities that are beeing incorporated into browsers...
I'll throw this in before some Firefox fanboy gets in with the usual "but in Opera it's only manual"...
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
Works at least as good as AdBlock + any proper list, light (no extension needed after all/uses build-in Opera features) and leaves almost no empty spaces.
One would think that with Jabber/XMPP and Jingle available that would be as easy as it gets, other than other group of people writing that portion of the app for your project... (but what's the point in maintaining a project then?)
So I take it that there IS finally some IM client which has Jingle implemented good enough that it's actually useable? With win32 Gtalk client?
(lack of proper Gtalk equivalent, with VoIP and "picture IM/previews" (video compatible with Gmail would be also mighty nice...) is basically the only thing that keeps me on Windows, apart from occasional game (though I can dualboot for that)
(when file beeing sent is a picture, it shows a preview in IM windows on both sides)
And while I can understand that nerds of all kind don't crave for voice & video, I can't understand why nobody implemented this "picture IM" functionality in any of the big Jabber clients...few of my anime-addicted buddies can't live without it. At least for one of them it's the only reason why Linux is out of the question.
And...similar for me, though I'd need full Gtalk equivalent (or at least...I prefer to think that I'll need it again ;p )
I'm not sure how you can call Gtalk client "not good for anything", if its only downside is lack of video... (for me, other than video & Linux version, it's pretty much perfect IM) ...especially since it's, you know, Jabber. So you can use server-side transports and have contacts from AIM (plus ICQ, MSN, what have you...) on your roster.
If only Skype was as good as Gtalk in VoIP implementation...sure, when connections are beefy, they're about equal.
But Skype can't even begin to compare to Gtalk when one party is on good old modem (the other on quite shitty, shared DSL), or when one uses GPRS connection... (two worst case scenarios that worked perfectly for me, though I suspect it would also work great with two modem users)
As a bonus, it also has waaaaay more no-bs/easier interface; very usefull when setting up a call between you and some distant party who isn't very computer-litterate.
Though Hotmail was bought by them...and one can argue that Xbox also leverages OS monopoly (by making game writing on Win & Xbox almost identical).
And I've never seen Zune with my own eyes...
And, strangely, people accept integrated into borwsers download managers, when there are much more powerfull separate apps...
Hm, you sure are aware of great "marketing" effort Firefox has enjoyed, however I'd say that the title of your post doesn't have much to do with it's succes (Opera, for example, is available on greater number of practical platforms), as well as its oss nature (people don't care about that - there's no difference anyway when sitting on top of closed OS...)
So...you want to imply that a typical Home instalation is used in the same way (few choices here...locked down vs. working as administrator for example) and by the same people as typical Pro installation?
You might be onto something, Europe has both large percentage of manual transmission cars and alternative browsers... (IE usage in my country dropped below 50% some time ago...)
At least Secunia states that it has less volnurabilities, both fixed and unfixed, than FF to which you switch people... (though probably in some time Google Chrome will be the best choice for switching normal people; just has to mature a bit/prove its security record)
In most of central & eastern Europe it's quite common, for example in my country it has 8% (FF has 42% and IE 48% - yup, below 50, so this /. article isn't exactly ave inspiring to me).
It's best performing in Ukraine, where it has 30% (IE 47%, FF 21% - yup, lower than Opera; but both grow at about the same rate, leading to the best possible, IMHO, situation with browsers - roughly equal split - IF THERE WERE ONLY THREE OF THEM... :/ (though Ukraine has also relatively high percentage of Webkit/KHTML - 2%)). Russia is supposedly even better for Opera, though I don't have numbers. Generally Opera seems to be popular in countries where people don't change their computers too often (so they can see clearly how fast & lean it is) and also rely almost exlusivelly on some technical relative, not salesman/etc....
BTW @this last (2%) number - I could just as easily ask "what's the deal with Safari? Nobody uses it after all...", from what I see in large part of Europe popularity of Opera & Safari is reversed in comparison to US...
What's more energy consuming, full blown furnace or two running fans in heat exchanger/ventilation? (heck, you could run them off a hamster probably ;P )
Actually, I can even imagine exercise bike-like backup ventilation, "run" occassionaly during outage, to be able to keep down the rate of temperature loss even more - those houses keep the heat so good that occupants/home animals are quite significant contribution. Especially ones that are exercising.
...in a case of total power loss? (and even that after some time, with the rate of loss at 1F per day)
Granted, it's not really in line with gas-guzzling culture, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
See: gods, religion, afterlife, etc. (which by their very nature are the most important things for believers)
Why applying the same rules to cartoons seems suddenly to irk people so much?... (well, except muslims)
But what happens 12 years later? ;)
I'm not sure about N64...initially I was totally in favor of it, but when digging deeper - I actually disliked the GFX/effects of almost every N64 game (there were few exceptions of course).
It seems N64, in my case, was a victim of its "technical merits", with almost every game using the same, nice, "high quality" effects...which didn't really fit AT ALL! (mostly bi/trilinear filtering applied to low resolution textures, making every game soap-like) So one could question if those merits were merits at all...
OTOH...many PS1 games had to be creative with their textures (some using NICER LOOKING (for me, because it wasn't soap like) software filtering), had to be really good in pure arts department.
But I guess I'm weird, I still really like the crude, rough look typical of PS1 games (not the same as todays brown/green/gray!) and I also thought filtering looked bad for a long, long time (before textures became high-res) - I think it messes with my perception of perspective.