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If you're writing code, you need a platform that is well supported by your IDE. If you're writing for vs.net all the time, you probably don't want a Mac. Using Eclipse for Java work, then Mac is fine -- etc.
Since almost any product on the market will work from a power standpoint, look at the details of form. Is the case well made? A magnesium or aluminum case can mean less flex even with less weight. Consider the touch pad -- is it multi-touch? Is the keyboard comfortable?
Also, watch the resolution. One mistake I've made in the past is getting too high a resolution screen for my eyes. At 15" the best resolution for my eyesight is 1440x900, so having a higher res screen means the typeface is too small or it's fuzzy as I switch to a non-native resolution for the screen (windows does NOT cope with rescaled fonts well).
In terms of stability, reliability, and so on -- I find Acer and Gateway to be near the bottom of the line; ASUS makes great hardware but I've never been happy with their support or documentation and their software (for custom bits of hardware, bios updates, etc) is downright terrible. Dell makes some great stuff in the latitude line, but the inspiron stuff isn't well made Dell's support has been downright misleading to me on more than one occasion (documented and published). FWIW, My Latitude D820 has been outstanding even if Dell's support has been terrible. HP has some stuff out that looks pretty, as does Toshiba but neither appeals to me all that much.
I'm kind of in the same boat as you -- I'm ready to replace this D820 after nearly 4 years, but nothing on the market right now really impresses me. I'm waiting for this winter's new stuff based on Core i7 to see what that looks like in a laptop. I'm also going to evaluate Windows 7. If it's not substantially more comfortable and more maintainable than Vista, I'll have no choice but to switch to Mac.
Here's something to think about, to all of you declaring that Notes is crap.
The real enterprise class messaging world is split about in half between using Microsoft Exchange on the back end and using Lotus Domino on the back end. Different analysts will split it in different places, and different parts of the world will also vary the numbers a bit, but generally the market for enterprise messaging is about split in half with everyone else taking up a very small percentage.
So, the product that you're calling "absolute crap" seems to be one of the few in the software industry holding its own against a relentless Microsoft push for years on end. Why is that? The answer is because it is VERY good at doing what it does -- which is providing a messaging platform that is manageable and secure across really large enterprises with tens or hundreds of thousands of users.
Lots of products are better than Notes or Domino at one or two things, but no product has the breadth and scope of its features in an enterprise manageable application server. The closest thing to it would be an entire linux distro, with various packages performing roles similar to the tasks on a Domino server. It's not a great match up but it's a hell of a lot closer than comparing it to "Gmail" which is pretty good for EMAIL or to Exchange. Maybe if you compared it to Exchange + Outlook + Sharepoint + SQL Server + Office + Visual Studio. That's a fairly expensive comparison and totally unmanageable to deploy across tens of thousands of users.
What amazes me are the predictions of failure. Hello? It already succeeded! It makes a TON of money and keeps a LOT of people employed. I can certainly understand if you don't LIKE the product. There are things that are long overdue to be overhauled, for sure. Predicting the failure of something that has already succeeded though -- that's fairly moronic.
As someone pointed out, however, LotusLive iNotes is not Notes, not Domino based iNotes (which has won awards, by the way, for its user interface), but is in fact an entirely different platform specifically built to be a hosted mail environment that has nothing to do with the old Lotus Notes or the Domino server. So far, I don't recommend it.
We are already using the oceans to cool pretty much everything. We use the oceans and/or the atmosphere to absorb all the btu's we generate -- we just do it indirectly. If you use a heat sink with a fan on it, then you're heating the air around it. If you use an air conditioning unit in a data center, you're heating their outside the data center (in fact, causing a good deal more heat than you're removing from the room).
In terms of taking less energy to perform the cooling, this may prove to have much less impact on the environment than using something dreadfully inefficient like compressed coolant air conditioning.
In fact, if you were to take in seawater, use it to cool a radiator (in the nature of a heat exchange system) then spray it back to the ocean by misting it or using it in a fountain out from of the place, you could potentially transfer those btu's back to mechanical energy through the process of evaporation and at the same time add clean water as humidity to the air --
All I can say is wow -- and wish I had the twenty minutes or so to tear that to shreds. I'm stunned. We disagree on virtually every single thing you've written.
This bravo-sierra about socialized medicine pisses me off. It's like all these people who claim to be "self made" and "nobody did anything for me". Bull. You stood on the back and shoulders of all those who came before you and made it possible for you to do what you did. Get over yourself.
As far as healthcare --
#1. Most of the worlds wealthy countries get by just fine with an actual socialized medicine structure, not the (finally) regulated capitalistic one currently being proposed in the US.
#2. We already spend more on healthcare than most of those countries, we just don't do it well.
#3. Our economy is currently crippled because people are afraid to change jobs, afraid to start businesses, and afraid to hire employees because of health care. (BTW: If you're anti-universal healthcare, you're anti-small business) -- I personally believe that if you removed the health care portability and availability restrictions from health care and did nothing else at all, our economy would grow so rapidly as to more than cover the costs of doing so. Cutting taxes is only one way to retire debt. The historically more effective method is to grow the economy and thus generate much more revenue. It worked quite well for both Regan and Clinton (then Bush turned all the money into bombs and bullets, but that's another argument).
#4. PLENTY of services are performed by the government quite well, as is appropriate. For example, water, sewer, sanitation and roadwork - while outsourced in most cases, are managed by local and state governments. I cite these first because they're more similar to the way health care will likely end up than are my next examples, which are decided more socialist in nature. Firefighting, Police, EMS, Schools, Medicare, Social Security, Flood Insurance, Banking Insurance, the National Parks service. All of these are best run by governments, even when the tasks are themselves subcontracted to bid.
Here's a reality check: The job of a corporation is to maximize profit. The larger a corporation gets, the more effective it can be at controlling market conditions in a way that favors it. That's why some regulation is required in order to prevent a cycle that leads to the monopolization or stagnation through collusion of a few top earning corporations.
What regulations are needed are quite simple:
#1 - Any health coverage plan which is offered, must be available to anyone who wishes to buy it. That is to say, if GlobalInsurance Corp. wants to sell an HMO for $xxx / month with a specific set of coverages, then they should be allowed to -- provided anyone can purchase it. Failing to do so, means that anyone who is above average in cost to insure, is uninsured and thus gets foisted on the taxpayer to have medical care provided at maximum expense in the least efficient manner possible.
#2 - Provide a tax credit of "xxx" dollars for any taxpayer who purchases a qualifying health insurance plan. To qualify, a plan would have to meet minimum coverage standards. Additional coverage could be purchased for more money, but the tax credit would remain the same amount regardless of how much more you spend.
#3 - Move regulation of the health insurance companies from the state to federal level. Currently, any insurance company who wants to sell a product, must tailor it to 50 different sets of rules and regulations, provide 50 different administrative processes, and so on. This makes the plans more expensive in all cases, and reduces the availability of competing plans in smaller markets.
Fix those three things, and the economy will completely open up -- oh, and people will be covered.
Personally, I'd like to see the whole thing be publicly managed, but I don't realistically see that happening the US any time soon.
....welcome our new all-sharing open society based on freely sharing information, technology, knowledge, and of course funding. The complete dissolution of the banking, monetary, privacy, security, and authentication systems forced on us by our repressive secret society will finally be over! -- or they'll just have to move to some prime numbers other than 3 and 5. Whichever.
It won't run Crysis and Download generic porn. It will run whatever game you had in mind -- the one that most closely matches your mood -- and it will download porn that exactly fits your personal fetish tastes. Hell, all that's missing is some carbon nanotubes and "free hydrogen" and this could save the world!
The shuttles have taught us a great deal about what you need to be designing into a SHUTTLE rather than a single use rocket. The costs, maintenance, and safety issues that crop up over the 20-30 year life span of a launch platform designed to be re-used. There are things you learn over the long term. Who would have thought that foam insulation around the liquid fuel tanks would be more dangerous because it is light weight than it would be if it were heavier? It took many many launches before we learned it (in a worst case scenario, sadly). Point is, that's just the one big glaring example. There are countless other reliability and availability lessons learned.
We already knew we could make a rocket get into space. We needed to make it almost commercially reliable and cheap. We're not there yet, but a long way closer, yes?
My read was exactly the same. The helmets are now so much better at protecting heads than anything ever has been in the past, that we're having to model air pressure caused skull flex in order to find something to make better. That's fantastic! Not too long ago the trauma was more likely to be a piece of a bomb going through the brain that caused the damage.
And yeah -- anything they can do to make them better is a good thing, but lets applaud how far they've come.
The only thing I'd add, is that if we could find a way to have less soldiers in the way of bombs and bullets, we could be less aggressive on helmet designs too. Ah well.
Don't you think Cancer sufferers have enough to deal with that they don't need to be stopped at random while driving their cars and subjected to additional tests? They must be allowed to continue to drive or how will they get to their chemotherapy appointments? Is there any evidence that Cancer patients are the cause of accidents? I'm not sure I like this.:-)
The company jewels should be encrypted and kept in secure locations only. Just because someone sets up your network doesn't mean they have to have the decryption keys to everything on it.
They seem to have a lot of excess capacity if you judge from what they're offering on leased servers.
I used to host my own gear up here in Maine (standby generator and all) but I could never get the bandwidth or reliability I can in a pro datacenter, and as the prices dropped so much there was no reason for me to worry about hardware any more.
As far as colo vs. leased server space - I'll take a leased server any time. The only servers I touch are in my office for development use. Customer facing stuff is all hosted now. I'm so used to remote management now that I rarely walk over to the servers I have here anyway.
I'm hosted at The Planet -- definitely lower end than say, Rackspace, but I've had no problems with them other than one outage that frankly they were amazing about handling. I've got servers in two cities for redundancy and am quite happy with the price/performance.
A much larger study is going to be needed to see if having this deformity is (a) unique to psychopaths, and (b) always present in them. If that's the case, great. A screening can be done early. If not, it sounds like a pretty scary way to lock people up in advance of them doing anything (which itself is a very very bad idea).
Standing there for a long time with my feet together would be terribly uncomfortable and moving without walking would be terrible for the muscles in my legs, back, and shoulders. It would be almost as bad as....software development!
I guess they'll have to make a negative outcome rating on the seller, and attempt to get resolution through the.....oh, wait....then skype will just neg them back and we already know how the "resolution" process favors the sellers. I guess eBay is just out of luck. What a shame.
Unlike those who just say "encryption" the parent of this post links to TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is free, very easy to install, very safe, very flexible, and quite secure. I've used it on laptops before and found the performance degradation to be minimal. The installation walks you through the selection of choices with enough information to help you make smart decisions. Just go get it and install it.
Opera just doesn't have that much market share. Neither does Chrome, but well, that is the home field favorite on YouTube/Google. As far as Safari, how many non-mac people even know what it is, let alone that there's a PC version? I have it, I like it and think it's excellent, but it's pretty unusual to find on a PC.
A guy goes to see a shrink for some help dealing with his relationships. He's already done the ink blot tests, so the shrink tries a new version, drawn with straight lines in seemingly random ways, but also bilaterally symmetric.
To the first picture, the guy sees a naked couple on the beach. To the second picture, the guy sees a couple taking a shower.... it goes on like that for a while, and the shrink ends by saying "You sir, are obsessed by sex." The may responds, "Me, what the hell, Doc? You're the one drawing all the dirty pictures!"
First, actions like this from massively broad based sites are critical to finally wiping the scourge of IE6 development off the planet. So initial Kudos to YouTube for taking the step.
Of course, YouTube == Google; so no shock that they're willing to disparage IE6, right?
But here's the difference between Google and Microsoft --
The banner shown here, on YouTube (owned by Google) doesn't JUST list Chrome as the upgrade path. It clearly gives equal exposure to Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 -- the biggest competing product to its own browser.
That's the right way to do be competitive in a social networking context. I think we know that if this was say, Bing! or Hotmail, it would show a link to IE8 but that's it. Well, ok, we don't KNOW that, but most of us assume it. I certainly do.
First, kinds of cancers were known to exist a century ago. Tumors and growths were not unheard of. Most childhood cancers killed quickly and were undiagnosed as specific disease other than "wasting away". When the average lifespan was 30-40 years, a great many other cancers were not present because people didn't live long enough to die from them.
As we cure "other" diseases, cancers become more likely causes of death. Cells fail to divide perfectly, some may go cancerous others simply don't produce as healthy a replacement specialized cell. Your arteries harden, muscles don't repair as well, other tissues don't work as well (you get weaker, more wrinkled, easier to fall ill). Eventually either something fails that can't be repaired or enough cells go cancerous. Until we either figure out how to replace the body (seems unlikely as the brain and body are more tied together than sf movies like to present) or we figure out how to make cells repair/refresh themselves without shortening their telomeres -- I have no idea how likely that actually is.
...used against me for anything without violating the DMCA. The act of decoding it by some forensics lab paternity test or future insurance company medical cost profile would become unlawful and I'm sure the RIAA would help me with the cost of prosecuting the lawsuit.
....it was taped to a label on the back of my social security card, which I kept laminated (oh the horror) in my wallet. I haven't even heard anyone mention compuserve in longer than it's been since I would dare keep my social security card in my wallet. Times do change.
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If you're writing code, you need a platform that is well supported by your IDE. If you're writing for vs.net all the time, you probably don't want a Mac. Using Eclipse for Java work, then Mac is fine -- etc.
Since almost any product on the market will work from a power standpoint, look at the details of form. Is the case well made? A magnesium or aluminum case can mean less flex even with less weight. Consider the touch pad -- is it multi-touch? Is the keyboard comfortable?
Also, watch the resolution. One mistake I've made in the past is getting too high a resolution screen for my eyes. At 15" the best resolution for my eyesight is 1440x900, so having a higher res screen means the typeface is too small or it's fuzzy as I switch to a non-native resolution for the screen (windows does NOT cope with rescaled fonts well).
In terms of stability, reliability, and so on -- I find Acer and Gateway to be near the bottom of the line; ASUS makes great hardware but I've never been happy with their support or documentation and their software (for custom bits of hardware, bios updates, etc) is downright terrible. Dell makes some great stuff in the latitude line, but the inspiron stuff isn't well made Dell's support has been downright misleading to me on more than one occasion (documented and published). FWIW, My Latitude D820 has been outstanding even if Dell's support has been terrible. HP has some stuff out that looks pretty, as does Toshiba but neither appeals to me all that much.
I'm kind of in the same boat as you -- I'm ready to replace this D820 after nearly 4 years, but nothing on the market right now really impresses me. I'm waiting for this winter's new stuff based on Core i7 to see what that looks like in a laptop. I'm also going to evaluate Windows 7. If it's not substantially more comfortable and more maintainable than Vista, I'll have no choice but to switch to Mac.
Here's something to think about, to all of you declaring that Notes is crap.
The real enterprise class messaging world is split about in half between using Microsoft Exchange on the back end and using Lotus Domino on the back end. Different analysts will split it in different places, and different parts of the world will also vary the numbers a bit, but generally the market for enterprise messaging is about split in half with everyone else taking up a very small percentage.
So, the product that you're calling "absolute crap" seems to be one of the few in the software industry holding its own against a relentless Microsoft push for years on end. Why is that? The answer is because it is VERY good at doing what it does -- which is providing a messaging platform that is manageable and secure across really large enterprises with tens or hundreds of thousands of users.
Lots of products are better than Notes or Domino at one or two things, but no product has the breadth and scope of its features in an enterprise manageable application server. The closest thing to it would be an entire linux distro, with various packages performing roles similar to the tasks on a Domino server. It's not a great match up but it's a hell of a lot closer than comparing it to "Gmail" which is pretty good for EMAIL or to Exchange. Maybe if you compared it to Exchange + Outlook + Sharepoint + SQL Server + Office + Visual Studio. That's a fairly expensive comparison and totally unmanageable to deploy across tens of thousands of users.
What amazes me are the predictions of failure. Hello? It already succeeded! It makes a TON of money and keeps a LOT of people employed. I can certainly understand if you don't LIKE the product. There are things that are long overdue to be overhauled, for sure. Predicting the failure of something that has already succeeded though -- that's fairly moronic.
As someone pointed out, however, LotusLive iNotes is not Notes, not Domino based iNotes (which has won awards, by the way, for its user interface), but is in fact an entirely different platform specifically built to be a hosted mail environment that has nothing to do with the old Lotus Notes or the Domino server. So far, I don't recommend it.
We are already using the oceans to cool pretty much everything. We use the oceans and/or the atmosphere to absorb all the btu's we generate -- we just do it indirectly. If you use a heat sink with a fan on it, then you're heating the air around it. If you use an air conditioning unit in a data center, you're heating their outside the data center (in fact, causing a good deal more heat than you're removing from the room).
In terms of taking less energy to perform the cooling, this may prove to have much less impact on the environment than using something dreadfully inefficient like compressed coolant air conditioning.
In fact, if you were to take in seawater, use it to cool a radiator (in the nature of a heat exchange system) then spray it back to the ocean by misting it or using it in a fountain out from of the place, you could potentially transfer those btu's back to mechanical energy through the process of evaporation and at the same time add clean water as humidity to the air --
All I can say is wow -- and wish I had the twenty minutes or so to tear that to shreds. I'm stunned. We disagree on virtually every single thing you've written.
This bravo-sierra about socialized medicine pisses me off. It's like all these people who claim to be "self made" and "nobody did anything for me". Bull. You stood on the back and shoulders of all those who came before you and made it possible for you to do what you did. Get over yourself.
As far as healthcare --
#1. Most of the worlds wealthy countries get by just fine with an actual socialized medicine structure, not the (finally) regulated capitalistic one currently being proposed in the US.
#2. We already spend more on healthcare than most of those countries, we just don't do it well.
#3. Our economy is currently crippled because people are afraid to change jobs, afraid to start businesses, and afraid to hire employees because of health care. (BTW: If you're anti-universal healthcare, you're anti-small business) -- I personally believe that if you removed the health care portability and availability restrictions from health care and did nothing else at all, our economy would grow so rapidly as to more than cover the costs of doing so. Cutting taxes is only one way to retire debt. The historically more effective method is to grow the economy and thus generate much more revenue. It worked quite well for both Regan and Clinton (then Bush turned all the money into bombs and bullets, but that's another argument).
#4. PLENTY of services are performed by the government quite well, as is appropriate. For example, water, sewer, sanitation and roadwork - while outsourced in most cases, are managed by local and state governments. I cite these first because they're more similar to the way health care will likely end up than are my next examples, which are decided more socialist in nature. Firefighting, Police, EMS, Schools, Medicare, Social Security, Flood Insurance, Banking Insurance, the National Parks service. All of these are best run by governments, even when the tasks are themselves subcontracted to bid.
Here's a reality check: The job of a corporation is to maximize profit. The larger a corporation gets, the more effective it can be at controlling market conditions in a way that favors it. That's why some regulation is required in order to prevent a cycle that leads to the monopolization or stagnation through collusion of a few top earning corporations.
What regulations are needed are quite simple:
#1 - Any health coverage plan which is offered, must be available to anyone who wishes to buy it. That is to say, if GlobalInsurance Corp. wants to sell an HMO for $xxx / month with a specific set of coverages, then they should be allowed to -- provided anyone can purchase it. Failing to do so, means that anyone who is above average in cost to insure, is uninsured and thus gets foisted on the taxpayer to have medical care provided at maximum expense in the least efficient manner possible.
#2 - Provide a tax credit of "xxx" dollars for any taxpayer who purchases a qualifying health insurance plan. To qualify, a plan would have to meet minimum coverage standards. Additional coverage could be purchased for more money, but the tax credit would remain the same amount regardless of how much more you spend.
#3 - Move regulation of the health insurance companies from the state to federal level. Currently, any insurance company who wants to sell a product, must tailor it to 50 different sets of rules and regulations, provide 50 different administrative processes, and so on. This makes the plans more expensive in all cases, and reduces the availability of competing plans in smaller markets.
Fix those three things, and the economy will completely open up -- oh, and people will be covered.
Personally, I'd like to see the whole thing be publicly managed, but I don't realistically see that happening the US any time soon.
....don't forget fusion powered! The energy of the FUTURE! (and always will be)
....welcome our new all-sharing open society based on freely sharing information, technology, knowledge, and of course funding. The complete dissolution of the banking, monetary, privacy, security, and authentication systems forced on us by our repressive secret society will finally be over! -- or they'll just have to move to some prime numbers other than 3 and 5. Whichever.
It won't run Crysis and Download generic porn. It will run whatever game you had in mind -- the one that most closely matches your mood -- and it will download porn that exactly fits your personal fetish tastes. Hell, all that's missing is some carbon nanotubes and "free hydrogen" and this could save the world!
The shuttles have taught us a great deal about what you need to be designing into a SHUTTLE rather than a single use rocket. The costs, maintenance, and safety issues that crop up over the 20-30 year life span of a launch platform designed to be re-used. There are things you learn over the long term. Who would have thought that foam insulation around the liquid fuel tanks would be more dangerous because it is light weight than it would be if it were heavier? It took many many launches before we learned it (in a worst case scenario, sadly). Point is, that's just the one big glaring example. There are countless other reliability and availability lessons learned.
We already knew we could make a rocket get into space. We needed to make it almost commercially reliable and cheap. We're not there yet, but a long way closer, yes?
My read was exactly the same. The helmets are now so much better at protecting heads than anything ever has been in the past, that we're having to model air pressure caused skull flex in order to find something to make better. That's fantastic! Not too long ago the trauma was more likely to be a piece of a bomb going through the brain that caused the damage.
And yeah -- anything they can do to make them better is a good thing, but lets applaud how far they've come.
The only thing I'd add, is that if we could find a way to have less soldiers in the way of bombs and bullets, we could be less aggressive on helmet designs too. Ah well.
Don't you think Cancer sufferers have enough to deal with that they don't need to be stopped at random while driving their cars and subjected to additional tests? They must be allowed to continue to drive or how will they get to their chemotherapy appointments? Is there any evidence that Cancer patients are the cause of accidents? I'm not sure I like this. :-)
The company jewels should be encrypted and kept in secure locations only. Just because someone sets up your network doesn't mean they have to have the decryption keys to everything on it.
They seem to have a lot of excess capacity if you judge from what they're offering on leased servers.
I used to host my own gear up here in Maine (standby generator and all) but I could never get the bandwidth or reliability I can in a pro datacenter, and as the prices dropped so much there was no reason for me to worry about hardware any more.
As far as colo vs. leased server space - I'll take a leased server any time. The only servers I touch are in my office for development use. Customer facing stuff is all hosted now. I'm so used to remote management now that I rarely walk over to the servers I have here anyway.
I'm hosted at The Planet -- definitely lower end than say, Rackspace, but I've had no problems with them other than one outage that frankly they were amazing about handling. I've got servers in two cities for redundancy and am quite happy with the price/performance.
I see what you did there. Very clever. You've clearly improved on the statement.
A much larger study is going to be needed to see if having this deformity is (a) unique to psychopaths, and (b) always present in them. If that's the case, great. A screening can be done early. If not, it sounds like a pretty scary way to lock people up in advance of them doing anything (which itself is a very very bad idea).
Standing there for a long time with my feet together would be terribly uncomfortable and moving without walking would be terrible for the muscles in my legs, back, and shoulders. It would be almost as bad as....software development!
I guess they'll have to make a negative outcome rating on the seller, and attempt to get resolution through the.....oh, wait....then skype will just neg them back and we already know how the "resolution" process favors the sellers. I guess eBay is just out of luck. What a shame.
Unlike those who just say "encryption" the parent of this post links to TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is free, very easy to install, very safe, very flexible, and quite secure. I've used it on laptops before and found the performance degradation to be minimal. The installation walks you through the selection of choices with enough information to help you make smart decisions. Just go get it and install it.
....To fly over in my fusion powered flying car to pick some up on the way to the drug store for my telomere repairing anti-cancer pills.
Opera just doesn't have that much market share. Neither does Chrome, but well, that is the home field favorite on YouTube/Google. As far as Safari, how many non-mac people even know what it is, let alone that there's a PC version? I have it, I like it and think it's excellent, but it's pretty unusual to find on a PC.
A guy goes to see a shrink for some help dealing with his relationships. He's already done the ink blot tests, so the shrink tries a new version, drawn with straight lines in seemingly random ways, but also bilaterally symmetric.
To the first picture, the guy sees a naked couple on the beach. ...
To the second picture, the guy sees a couple taking a shower.
it goes on like that for a while, and the shrink ends by saying "You sir, are obsessed by sex."
The may responds, "Me, what the hell, Doc? You're the one drawing all the dirty pictures!"
First, actions like this from massively broad based sites are critical to finally wiping the scourge of IE6 development off the planet. So initial Kudos to YouTube for taking the step.
Of course, YouTube == Google; so no shock that they're willing to disparage IE6, right?
But here's the difference between Google and Microsoft --
The banner shown here, on YouTube (owned by Google) doesn't JUST list Chrome as the upgrade path. It clearly gives equal exposure to Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 -- the biggest competing product to its own browser.
That's the right way to do be competitive in a social networking context. I think we know that if this was say, Bing! or Hotmail, it would show a link to IE8 but that's it. Well, ok, we don't KNOW that, but most of us assume it. I certainly do.
First, kinds of cancers were known to exist a century ago. Tumors and growths were not unheard of. Most childhood cancers killed quickly and were undiagnosed as specific disease other than "wasting away". When the average lifespan was 30-40 years, a great many other cancers were not present because people didn't live long enough to die from them.
As we cure "other" diseases, cancers become more likely causes of death. Cells fail to divide perfectly, some may go cancerous others simply don't produce as healthy a replacement specialized cell. Your arteries harden, muscles don't repair as well, other tissues don't work as well (you get weaker, more wrinkled, easier to fall ill). Eventually either something fails that can't be repaired or enough cells go cancerous. Until we either figure out how to replace the body (seems unlikely as the brain and body are more tied together than sf movies like to present) or we figure out how to make cells repair/refresh themselves without shortening their telomeres -- I have no idea how likely that actually is.
...used against me for anything without violating the DMCA. The act of decoding it by some forensics lab paternity test or future insurance company medical cost profile would become unlawful and I'm sure the RIAA would help me with the cost of prosecuting the lawsuit.
....it was taped to a label on the back of my social security card, which I kept laminated (oh the horror) in my wallet. I haven't even heard anyone mention compuserve in longer than it's been since I would dare keep my social security card in my wallet. Times do change.