I just don't get this whole shuttle thing Nasa are going on about at the moment. It's been flying for decades with respectably few accidents, but now its suddenly too dangerous to go anywhere other then ISS.
At any rate if the only danger is that the heat proof tiles get damaged then why on earth don't they just pack enough supplies to let them hang around in orbit long enough to be rescued?
It just seems really stupid to waste the shuttles just because they're so image conscious that they have to avoid losing astronaughts at all cost, I mean they may as well not go anywhere near space if that's going to be their attitude
As a professional web developer IE is the BANE of my life.
It's company policy to write pages in 100% conforming XHTML and CSS, and thus most times pages display perfectly in Mozilla, Safari and other decent browsers (apart from some minor quirks each browser has).
PC Internet explorer on the other hand requires a large amount of hacks to get it to display things right (which after a lot of hours of trial and error it usually eventually does). Of course the hacks can't just be applied to the style sheet as this would make them non-compliant and usually messes up other browsers, so the best way I've found is to use server side scripting to serve up different css (and in some cases different html too).
It's surprising how far you can push IE to display properly compliant and accessible pages if you spend enough time working round all its problems. If more website developers actually wrote in compliancy to their pages rather then just writing something that "works on most peoples browser" then that would be one less reason for ordinary people to use IE.
What really needs to happen is for us to find a way to make an operating system (with a sufficient number of features) fit on a USB drive. Either that or make large USB drives cheaper. =P
30 quid for an IDE to USB2 caddy too expensive?:)
Hard-disks in drive computers??
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"Toyota, have done away with removable memory chips altogether. That has the e-mechanics shifting strategies, either by downloading new software directly into the computer's hard drive"
I hope not, I remember the Top Gear episode where Clarkson tried (and failed) to trash an old Toyota pickup. Imagine if a cars engine management computer used a hard disk, run over the first pothole in the road and it'd be ruined (although it certainly brings a whole new meaning to the term "harddrive crash")
"They predict the moon has enough energy to last the U.S. over 1,000 years."
Note that it's not "enough energy to last the World", only the US.
Of course it would probably be enough for the US for 1,000 years or 10,000 years for the rest of the planet.
On another note covering 60% or so of the sahara desert in solar panels is enough to supply the entire world with more then enough electricity, so really you don't have to go that far from home for "unlimited" clean energy
Well I can't read the article as it seems to have been/.ed, but the main thing I don't like about the dock is that everything is basically an icon.
That's fine if you mainly do graphic design, where you can see what minimised photoshop windows are, but if you do a lot of text/html work then the only way to see what minimised windows contain is to mouse over them one by one.
Windows XP, despite its hideous default theme has the best "taskbar" I've seen on any OS. Say I've got a load of dreamweaver files open as well as some folders open, they're grouped neatly into 2 items on the bar that I can expand to see a list of all the html files or folders that I have open.
Of course as Macs were (and still are?) considered to specialise as graphic design workstations this feature at least seems to make some sense.
Surely all that would need to happen is over the course of a few weeks to rewrite or remove any infringing code and re-release distributions. Then SCO would really have no grounds to charge people licences and it would be business as usual.
Or because Linux sounds a bit like Unix will we always have to pay of that privilege?
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I just don't get this whole shuttle thing Nasa are going on about at the moment. It's been flying for decades with respectably few accidents, but now its suddenly too dangerous to go anywhere other then ISS.
At any rate if the only danger is that the heat proof tiles get damaged then why on earth don't they just pack enough supplies to let them hang around in orbit long enough to be rescued?
It just seems really stupid to waste the shuttles just because they're so image conscious that they have to avoid losing astronaughts at all cost, I mean they may as well not go anywhere near space if that's going to be their attitude
One of the boeing 737 models (iirc) had a flaw with it's rudder that caused it to get stuck, resulting in several crashes and hundreds of people dead.
Kinda puts this problem with the shuttles in perspective to me.
As a professional web developer IE is the BANE of my life.
It's company policy to write pages in 100% conforming XHTML and CSS, and thus most times pages display perfectly in Mozilla, Safari and other decent browsers (apart from some minor quirks each browser has).
PC Internet explorer on the other hand requires a large amount of hacks to get it to display things right (which after a lot of hours of trial and error it usually eventually does). Of course the hacks can't just be applied to the style sheet as this would make them non-compliant and usually messes up other browsers, so the best way I've found is to use server side scripting to serve up different css (and in some cases different html too).
It's surprising how far you can push IE to display properly compliant and accessible pages if you spend enough time working round all its problems. If more website developers actually wrote in compliancy to their pages rather then just writing something that "works on most peoples browser" then that would be one less reason for ordinary people to use IE.
What really needs to happen is for us to find a way to make an operating system (with a sufficient number of features) fit on a USB drive. Either that or make large USB drives cheaper. =P
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30 quid for an IDE to USB2 caddy too expensive?
"Toyota, have done away with removable memory chips altogether. That has the e-mechanics shifting strategies, either by downloading new software directly into the computer's hard drive"
I hope not, I remember the Top Gear episode where Clarkson tried (and failed) to trash an old Toyota pickup. Imagine if a cars engine management computer used a hard disk, run over the first pothole in the road and it'd be ruined (although it certainly brings a whole new meaning to the term "harddrive crash")
"They predict the moon has enough energy to last the U.S. over 1,000 years."
Note that it's not "enough energy to last the World", only the US.
Of course it would probably be enough for the US for 1,000 years or 10,000 years for the rest of the planet.
On another note covering 60% or so of the sahara desert in solar panels is enough to supply the entire world with more then enough electricity, so really you don't have to go that far from home for "unlimited" clean energy
I say bring back Orion! They you can get to the moon and Mars easy.
Sure it releases loads of radiation, but probably less likely to cause cancer then smoking
Well I can't read the article as it seems to have been /.ed, but the main thing I don't like about the dock is that everything is basically an icon.
That's fine if you mainly do graphic design, where you can see what minimised photoshop windows are, but if you do a lot of text/html work then the only way to see what minimised windows contain is to mouse over them one by one.
Windows XP, despite its hideous default theme has the best "taskbar" I've seen on any OS. Say I've got a load of dreamweaver files open as well as some folders open, they're grouped neatly into 2 items on the bar that I can expand to see a list of all the html files or folders that I have open.
Of course as Macs were (and still are?) considered to specialise as graphic design workstations this feature at least seems to make some sense.
Surely all that would need to happen is over the course of a few weeks to rewrite or remove any infringing code and re-release distributions. Then SCO would really have no grounds to charge people licences and it would be business as usual. Or because Linux sounds a bit like Unix will we always have to pay of that privilege?