:D
You got it in one!
This ex-airline pilot has her toes curled up in horror at the number of probable problems . . .
At high speeds . . .
With no-where to go!
The Russians have spend many years trying to master this technology, no doubt because of the promise, but their efforts have produced prodigiously expensive-to-run, and amazingly complex, devices. Now mouldering.
Given current computing speeds there is the probablity that stability augmentation will be up to the task of constraining the suggested mass in the tight confines of the concrete channel - but Ooo Aaah! The potential for dramatic failures!
Save resources. Teach people to fly -- themselves. Grow us a decent pair of wings, and it's all good!
?
Resistive touch screen! Where to I sign up! I have and stick with an old Palm Treo 650, and use MobileWrite for hand-drawn text input (think shorthand, Palm text input on steroids), and will be lost when it goes, if HP can't move on with the platform and produce a replacement. I can take notes at a lecture without taking my eye off the presentation, flick to a graphics app and do a quick (and tight) sketch of what is being presented, and have wonderfully precise input using my converted_bamboo_knitting_needle stylus which is longer that the plastic standard, so I only have to use micro hand movements. At 3am I'll reach for it to do engineering idea draughts (think graphics shorthand). Capacitive input better? Why? Are your fingers about 1mm at the tip, or is grabbing a 'stylus' (retracted biro, any firm pointed object, fingernail) too difficult? Not for me, kids.
If Andoid can duplicate this usability, I'm in. (And my Touch 4 will go further back on the shelf, except when I need it's super-thin form factor to match an outfit:) )
But yes, a low quality resistive screen would be a pain; probably similar to a capacitive screen:D
Every note I have read to date (I soon gave up - too boring) seemed just honest opinions, reasonably honestly expressed.
Could this be the start of something new in Intl. relationships, perhaps? Honesty? Oh! Don't be so stupid, you foolish old woman, you.
Radical, but.
Where to start? Get Lovellock up to speed, for a start.
I'm an ex radio tech, and the CO2 curve is that of a full blown runaway positive feedback. Why? We can only guess. 'Science' has started too late to gather the data in time. You got any ideas? Didn't think so.
I've been banging on in Oz for about 2 years now that, as the +ve reaction will go terminal by about 2016-2017, and given the graph's slope, the *only* possible way to reduce emissions to below what the planet can absorb is political extremism. 'We' need to introduce Facist government techniques universally, probably for 25-30 years, at least until 'we' can be trusted to not ramp the shit back up again.
Fat chance.
So like the characters in Neville Shutes 'On the Beach', I have given up trying to 'save the planet', and am now starting to ramp up my consumption to the general excessive levels practiced by most Australians. (The Yanks are way down the scale.) Enjoy what time is left to all but the bugs that reside in asbestos mines. They may have a faint chance of adjusting to the temps coming to a future just ahead of you.
Unless we *all* swerve. In unison. All 6 billion of we planetary pathogens in our once pretty Petrie dish.
Likely?
Nup.
Byeeeee.
Actually just one year too early. As was usual then, and probably still now (I stay regressively in Office vX) the year after the release of Win the Mac version of the latest Office release came with a Mac version of clippie in Excel.
That little ol' Mac 128 with legs can still raise a smile if I leave it out to play. I'll never forget the first time it sat down, bored with entertaining itself by turning into a Rubic's Cube and solving itself, and nodded off, 'head' in lap, being totally ignored - until the sudden loud noise of something being dropped cause work to stop and my confused look around, to eventual discover the little Mac flat on it's back on screen, fast asleep. ROFL squared.
Done with great humour, and very responsive to your style of work as to what it things it got up to. But then, I guess I'm officially an ancient these days.
Someone did knew how to code in that dept. And yes, 'he' would offer contextual help, albeit not always of any great use.
p.s. sorry about the blob of text - it's so long since I've done one, that I've forgotten how to do a hard return on the Mac keyboard.
Hear hear.
Combine Palm Graffiti and MobileWrite, a clean Notepad page in my Treo, and any trusty stylus, and I'm taking (error laden) shorthand and following the lecture tightly, heads up..
The only improvement possible in my eyes would be a built-in telephoto camera to grab the odd diagram as it flashes by. You would then have the perfect personal recording device. Used my Treo for years (sans camera_sigh) with great success & recall.
Retyping the faux-shorthand (while deciphering the errors) locks the text into the synapses. Ancient learning skill. Effective.
Palm good because it has a high definition resistive touch screen, as against low definition capacitive sensing on most other devices.
No, they're at best as annoying as top-posters. Nobody's *more* annoying than top-posters... Unfortunately, top-posting has even started happening on web forums too.
Gee!
I better stop doing that in most of my emails, done in the interests of the conservation of scarce electrons.
Bah!
Typical US extravagance.
Maybe banning violence would help to cut down on the violence in that country.
Mmmm
From the originating (1) report:
"Caracas has 96 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and New Orleans registers 95my emphasis, said the Mexican non-governmental organization, which based its figures on media reports and an FBI report for the United States"
Fastinating how the CNA* herd charge all over reality.#
* CNA = Central North America
# Actually; depressing. I so understand various non-CNA people's anger towards them.
I think the current Russian proposals show a better & more wide ranging analysis of the task. But who am I to comment on such vast potentials and tecnicalities. Have a quiet read of http://www.russianspaceweb.com/maks2009/index.htm, and recall that almost the entire low earth orbit achievements for the last 10-15 years have been enabled by the Russian engineer's pragmatism, and auto docking/manual reversion enabled supply vehicles. Yes a lot of heavy lifting has been done by the shuttle, but lots of small bricks can do the same job, and probably more cheaply.
If only we could somehow just give the world's engineers a measured bucket of finance, and say âCan you do this for us?â(TM) Then step back. Hard for politicians to do.
Personally I believe the engineers (EU, Russian, USSR, & US of A) have been doing some stunning work for years, on such very tight budgets, with their developed, and developing robotics, to marvellous effect. Thanks gals ân guys.
Way to go, as far as Iâ(TM)m concerned. Totally productive; flaws only hurt budgets, no-oneâ(TM)s bodies; stunning returns to date.
(And please - >someone tell me how to insert a line spacing Return at this xyz blog! Please?)
I'd delete _usually_, but not necessarily regarding the contractors. . .
I was on a jury a while back, on a case brought by the Feds, and their boof-headed NSW public school boy damaged_by_too_many_rugby_tackles statements and behaviour in court was remarked on, and joked about, by all on the jury. The three ex-military men on the jury said they would have stood the Fed reps down and charged them with wilful incompetence if they had been under their command!
And don't get me started on who should be charged in the Mr McKinnon case. I should have had him thanked him for bringing the security flaws to light, and given him a pat on the back!
I guess it proves that attack is still the best means of defence, if your neck may be on the line.
I refer you to a post of mine 10 (or so) years back, where (where? errmmm) I suggested the Clayser Printer in a data longevity discussion, in which 4,000 year old clay tablets featured.
You would load the Clayser with fine clay & water, which the printer mixes on demand & rolls out into a fine sheet. It burns data to the surface, and finally bakes the clay to Babylonian hardness.
Sure, the tablets may be a little brittle, but there is a storage opportunity, surely, for an enterprising young entrepreneur?
What bothers *me is that no real progress seems to have happened since I upped my Mac 128 to a Mac 2048, and ran a 1Mb ram disk that held the OS, a ram-tuned WP (WriteNow, NeXT's default WP) Excel & room for one more.
PC users used to laugh at me lugging my 9kg about - sooo slooow they laughed - but couldn't understand the concept of a ram disk.
That baby *worked almost as fast as my current MacBook Pro! 25 years ago (as of yesterday *and I fired it up *and it still works.)
(Ahem, except for the occasional 400k floppy access to save, of course.)
I've dreamt of being finally able to get back to working in a ram disk for years, and it's almost affordable at last.
I use a wallet and a silver sharpie. Not the Organizational Dream, but it's manageable for now.
Not a silly question, and yours the start of a decent answer.
A 'permanent pigmented ink' (Nikko make some) marker pen (art shops) numbers each card. Any number, but naturally unique.
On my Mac I'd mount the card, open it in list view, Select All & copy.
In your favourite spreadsheet paste into the top cell and you get just the file names in the first column. (Does Win do this too?)
Next column put card number/CD, VD name, etc and Fill Down.
Sort. Bingo! One db.
Add other cards, CDs, DVDs et al, adding each copy below the last, then sorting the lot each time. Good macro exercise. One day!
With transient data sets like a card I'd also add a date column.
I've tried most, & bought some, of the mainline cataloguers - this setup is much faster, dead cheaper, and generally easier to access. My db has about 4k entries now, and stretches back years. Dead easy to find stuff.
Put 'em where it's easiest for you; wallet, purse, bank card micro-wallet, what-ever.
FWIW
Excellant!
It is concerning me greatly how far below the radar that fusion development has seemed to drop - or is it just me?
Since the late 50's I've been supporting our fission cycle developments, because even back then it was obvious that a) oil was being consumed at a terminal rate, and b) it was going to take one h*ll of a long development cycle to be able to stabilize temps hotter than the sun's surface.
They are sooo close, but closing out the final few metres, and getting fusion up as a practical option, may well take a lot of fission plants for a lot of years so as to maintain the technical infrastructure that will be required to get fusion flying.
Once there we'll be OK, in shah Allah/God willing, but it's going to be touch & go, and I doubt if I'll see it in my time.
Heh guys. These people are starting from way back in the field. Big hard task. To my mind ANY access via the ubiquitous mosque (perhaps with the last stage being WiFi to the home, or equivalent,) is bloody brilliant!
Mosques = tall
A Coms tower in every suburb, nay area, nay street.
These people really pray, or the few who do, do.
Who says 3rd world is worse?
This 'research' is about 45 years later than my observations.
When working on my commercial pilot's licence I would fly traffic reporting 'missions.' The penultimate was to cover the annual Oakbank (lovely little race course in the Adelaid Hills) races. Single road access; 3-5000 cars visiting.
When the day was over everyone wanted to leave at the same time. I observed that as long as sensible types were driving the traffic flow would be smooth and fast, but if ONE single moron decided to pull out into the oncoming but empty lane to pass others, that a very visible wave of speed reduction would flow back throught the traffic stream, but, most fascinatingly, a similar but weaker wave would flow forward from the f'wit's vehicle. Within 200 metres the f'wit would be slowed down by that forward inteference wave, such that he/she/it would finish up bogged down in the morass that they themselves had created, along with everyone else. It would usually take about three minutes for the traffic stream to return to smooth order flow, but by then our prime f'wit would lunge again. You have to admit, f'wits are consistent(ly stupid.)
I was doing theory of flight subjects at the time, and the observed traffic flow and expanding in both directions waves was a screamingly obviously example of Bernoulli's theorem of fluid flow, the fluid in this case being one tonne lumps of tin on wheels.
From that day forth I have trumpeted the application of Bernoulli's theory to the prime objective of maintaining laminar flow in your fluid flow. Every driving instructor. State safety conferences. Police chiefs/ transport Ministers. Joe Blows.
I'm not very good at getting the word out.
I can and have sat across/between two lanes of erratic flowing traffic and ground those two lanes back to fluid flow by sitting dogmatically at what was obviously the average speed of the pack. Do that for about 2 km, ignore the protests, and suddenly everything smoothes out and the entire mass of cars are back up to speed, at which point I quietly slip into the 'slow' lane, and let everyone tear off again.
It works.
Bernoulli Rules!
OK?
Hardly, dear Zonk.
Segue over to a Mac user, ask them to download a (free public release) copy of iCab (www.icab.de) and have a look at what ONE man (Alexander Clauss) is capable of.
Mac only (it was your choice, folks)(or was it? Bill?) iCab was the first freely available public release browser to pass the Acid-2 test. Now, in his v4 series, having given in and gone over to webkit for his engine, iCab may perhaps not fly through Acid-3 when they finally resolve it as a test, but in the meantime Alexander is still 6-12 months ahead of anyone else for general innovation in the interface stakes. Opera is a follower, and often a fail-er. Netscape 8 on WinBox is possibly the nearest competitor. SeaMonkey on Mac a close third, and my main browser when Alex went through a sticky patch.
iCab is simply the best browser interface you will use, in my considered opinion.
Use it and be productive as no other browser allows.
To be notified of constantly updated beta bleeding edge versions it will cost you a one-off US$29 - Max value.
Am I biased?
Blood oath!
Jen of Brisbane
The question might surely should be; "is the U.S. driving the U.S. behind?"
As almost the only country left on the planet that still can't accept the rationality of the metric system, and,
As one of the only two countries on the planet that reject the rationality of the Kyoto Agreement's aims (even if they are not yet perfect),
. . . it would seem to most outsiders that the good ol' is running on empty, certainly on reserves.
After a max years exposure to Mac I recently had to resurrect an old WinBox to trial an Ox financial app.
In my opinion of the 'dozer has not changed as a result.
You want to achieve a something? Avoid Winbox.
However. As part of that resurrection exercise, I loaded Lotus 97 for the first time.
Speaking from my towering position of almost total WinBox ignorance, it seemed to me that your correspondent's report of the new 'office' interface, that it sounded remarkably like the Lotus interface, which, co-incidentally, I removed from my hard drive this morning.
Jen
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:D You got it in one! This ex-airline pilot has her toes curled up in horror at the number of probable problems . . . At high speeds . . . With no-where to go! The Russians have spend many years trying to master this technology, no doubt because of the promise, but their efforts have produced prodigiously expensive-to-run, and amazingly complex, devices. Now mouldering. Given current computing speeds there is the probablity that stability augmentation will be up to the task of constraining the suggested mass in the tight confines of the concrete channel - but Ooo Aaah! The potential for dramatic failures! Save resources. Teach people to fly -- themselves. Grow us a decent pair of wings, and it's all good! ?
Resistive touch screen! Where to I sign up! I have and stick with an old Palm Treo 650, and use MobileWrite for hand-drawn text input (think shorthand, Palm text input on steroids), and will be lost when it goes, if HP can't move on with the platform and produce a replacement. I can take notes at a lecture without taking my eye off the presentation, flick to a graphics app and do a quick (and tight) sketch of what is being presented, and have wonderfully precise input using my converted_bamboo_knitting_needle stylus which is longer that the plastic standard, so I only have to use micro hand movements. At 3am I'll reach for it to do engineering idea draughts (think graphics shorthand). Capacitive input better? Why? Are your fingers about 1mm at the tip, or is grabbing a 'stylus' (retracted biro, any firm pointed object, fingernail) too difficult? Not for me, kids. If Andoid can duplicate this usability, I'm in. (And my Touch 4 will go further back on the shelf, except when I need it's super-thin form factor to match an outfit :) )
But yes, a low quality resistive screen would be a pain; probably similar to a capacitive screen :D
Every note I have read to date (I soon gave up - too boring) seemed just honest opinions, reasonably honestly expressed. Could this be the start of something new in Intl. relationships, perhaps? Honesty? Oh! Don't be so stupid, you foolish old woman, you. Radical, but.
This Lovelock character needs killing in the most desperate sort of way for making a comment like that.
So what state did you grow up in? Or need I ask?
Where to start? Get Lovellock up to speed, for a start. I'm an ex radio tech, and the CO2 curve is that of a full blown runaway positive feedback. Why? We can only guess. 'Science' has started too late to gather the data in time. You got any ideas? Didn't think so. I've been banging on in Oz for about 2 years now that, as the +ve reaction will go terminal by about 2016-2017, and given the graph's slope, the *only* possible way to reduce emissions to below what the planet can absorb is political extremism. 'We' need to introduce Facist government techniques universally, probably for 25-30 years, at least until 'we' can be trusted to not ramp the shit back up again. Fat chance. So like the characters in Neville Shutes 'On the Beach', I have given up trying to 'save the planet', and am now starting to ramp up my consumption to the general excessive levels practiced by most Australians. (The Yanks are way down the scale.) Enjoy what time is left to all but the bugs that reside in asbestos mines. They may have a faint chance of adjusting to the temps coming to a future just ahead of you. Unless we *all* swerve. In unison. All 6 billion of we planetary pathogens in our once pretty Petrie dish. Likely? Nup. Byeeeee.
Actually just one year too early. As was usual then, and probably still now (I stay regressively in Office vX) the year after the release of Win the Mac version of the latest Office release came with a Mac version of clippie in Excel. That little ol' Mac 128 with legs can still raise a smile if I leave it out to play. I'll never forget the first time it sat down, bored with entertaining itself by turning into a Rubic's Cube and solving itself, and nodded off, 'head' in lap, being totally ignored - until the sudden loud noise of something being dropped cause work to stop and my confused look around, to eventual discover the little Mac flat on it's back on screen, fast asleep. ROFL squared. Done with great humour, and very responsive to your style of work as to what it things it got up to. But then, I guess I'm officially an ancient these days. Someone did knew how to code in that dept. And yes, 'he' would offer contextual help, albeit not always of any great use. p.s. sorry about the blob of text - it's so long since I've done one, that I've forgotten how to do a hard return on the Mac keyboard.
Hear hear. Combine Palm Graffiti and MobileWrite, a clean Notepad page in my Treo, and any trusty stylus, and I'm taking (error laden) shorthand and following the lecture tightly, heads up.. The only improvement possible in my eyes would be a built-in telephoto camera to grab the odd diagram as it flashes by. You would then have the perfect personal recording device. Used my Treo for years (sans camera_sigh) with great success & recall. Retyping the faux-shorthand (while deciphering the errors) locks the text into the synapses. Ancient learning skill. Effective. Palm good because it has a high definition resistive touch screen, as against low definition capacitive sensing on most other devices.
No, they're at best as annoying as top-posters. Nobody's *more* annoying than top-posters... Unfortunately, top-posting has even started happening on web forums too.
Gee! I better stop doing that in most of my emails, done in the interests of the conservation of scarce electrons. Bah! Typical US extravagance.
Yeeeeeeeesssssss!
Been trying to get this done in Oz for four years +.
Well done the US of A.
Well, Utah at least.
Maybe banning violence would help to cut down on the violence in that country.
Mmmm
From the originating (1) report: "Caracas has 96 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and New Orleans registers 95 my emphasis, said the Mexican non-governmental organization, which based its figures on media reports and an FBI report for the United States"
Fastinating how the CNA* herd charge all over reality.#
* CNA = Central North America
# Actually; depressing. I so understand various non-CNA people's anger towards them.
I think the current Russian proposals show a better & more wide ranging analysis of the task. But who am I to comment on such vast potentials and tecnicalities. Have a quiet read of http://www.russianspaceweb.com/maks2009/index.htm, and recall that almost the entire low earth orbit achievements for the last 10-15 years have been enabled by the Russian engineer's pragmatism, and auto docking/manual reversion enabled supply vehicles. Yes a lot of heavy lifting has been done by the shuttle, but lots of small bricks can do the same job, and probably more cheaply. If only we could somehow just give the world's engineers a measured bucket of finance, and say âCan you do this for us?â(TM) Then step back. Hard for politicians to do. Personally I believe the engineers (EU, Russian, USSR, & US of A) have been doing some stunning work for years, on such very tight budgets, with their developed, and developing robotics, to marvellous effect. Thanks gals ân guys. Way to go, as far as Iâ(TM)m concerned. Totally productive; flaws only hurt budgets, no-oneâ(TM)s bodies; stunning returns to date. (And please - >someone tell me how to insert a line spacing Return at this xyz blog! Please?)
I'd delete _usually_, but not necessarily regarding the contractors. . . I was on a jury a while back, on a case brought by the Feds, and their boof-headed NSW public school boy damaged_by_too_many_rugby_tackles statements and behaviour in court was remarked on, and joked about, by all on the jury. The three ex-military men on the jury said they would have stood the Fed reps down and charged them with wilful incompetence if they had been under their command! And don't get me started on who should be charged in the Mr McKinnon case. I should have had him thanked him for bringing the security flaws to light, and given him a pat on the back! I guess it proves that attack is still the best means of defence, if your neck may be on the line.
I refer you to a post of mine 10 (or so) years back, where (where? errmmm) I suggested the Clayser Printer in a data longevity discussion, in which 4,000 year old clay tablets featured. You would load the Clayser with fine clay & water, which the printer mixes on demand & rolls out into a fine sheet. It burns data to the surface, and finally bakes the clay to Babylonian hardness. Sure, the tablets may be a little brittle, but there is a storage opportunity, surely, for an enterprising young entrepreneur?
Dunno. But it works excellently in iCab 4.5 But that's Mac only. Never mind.
Ah yes, but at least it is still cheaper than the almost same spec top spec Mac Pro! FrumAnOnOlMacer
What bothers *me is that no real progress seems to have happened since I upped my Mac 128 to a Mac 2048, and ran a 1Mb ram disk that held the OS, a ram-tuned WP (WriteNow, NeXT's default WP) Excel & room for one more. PC users used to laugh at me lugging my 9kg about - sooo slooow they laughed - but couldn't understand the concept of a ram disk. That baby *worked almost as fast as my current MacBook Pro! 25 years ago (as of yesterday *and I fired it up *and it still works.) (Ahem, except for the occasional 400k floppy access to save, of course.) I've dreamt of being finally able to get back to working in a ram disk for years, and it's almost affordable at last.
I use a wallet and a silver sharpie. Not the Organizational Dream, but it's manageable for now.
Not a silly question, and yours the start of a decent answer. A 'permanent pigmented ink' (Nikko make some) marker pen (art shops) numbers each card. Any number, but naturally unique. On my Mac I'd mount the card, open it in list view, Select All & copy. In your favourite spreadsheet paste into the top cell and you get just the file names in the first column. (Does Win do this too?) Next column put card number/CD, VD name, etc and Fill Down. Sort. Bingo! One db. Add other cards, CDs, DVDs et al, adding each copy below the last, then sorting the lot each time. Good macro exercise. One day! With transient data sets like a card I'd also add a date column. I've tried most, & bought some, of the mainline cataloguers - this setup is much faster, dead cheaper, and generally easier to access. My db has about 4k entries now, and stretches back years. Dead easy to find stuff. Put 'em where it's easiest for you; wallet, purse, bank card micro-wallet, what-ever. FWIW
Excellant! It is concerning me greatly how far below the radar that fusion development has seemed to drop - or is it just me? Since the late 50's I've been supporting our fission cycle developments, because even back then it was obvious that a) oil was being consumed at a terminal rate, and b) it was going to take one h*ll of a long development cycle to be able to stabilize temps hotter than the sun's surface. They are sooo close, but closing out the final few metres, and getting fusion up as a practical option, may well take a lot of fission plants for a lot of years so as to maintain the technical infrastructure that will be required to get fusion flying. Once there we'll be OK, in shah Allah/God willing, but it's going to be touch & go, and I doubt if I'll see it in my time.
Heh guys. These people are starting from way back in the field. Big hard task. To my mind ANY access via the ubiquitous mosque (perhaps with the last stage being WiFi to the home, or equivalent,) is bloody brilliant! Mosques = tall A Coms tower in every suburb, nay area, nay street. These people really pray, or the few who do, do. Who says 3rd world is worse?
This vehicle is using the Russian auto dock adaptor and complete electronics package as I understand it, under licence.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ & Anatoly Zac's stunning graphics for details>
But nary a whisper of that from the PR jerks, or the pollies.
All the frission from NASA (Remember the 30M+$ space biro?)
Rusckies just use pencils, and build stuff that works . . .
. . . and works . . .
. . . and. . .
Ah. You know.
(Mind you, it sure shifts a truck load at a time!)
This 'research' is about 45 years later than my observations. When working on my commercial pilot's licence I would fly traffic reporting 'missions.' The penultimate was to cover the annual Oakbank (lovely little race course in the Adelaid Hills) races. Single road access; 3-5000 cars visiting. When the day was over everyone wanted to leave at the same time. I observed that as long as sensible types were driving the traffic flow would be smooth and fast, but if ONE single moron decided to pull out into the oncoming but empty lane to pass others, that a very visible wave of speed reduction would flow back throught the traffic stream, but, most fascinatingly, a similar but weaker wave would flow forward from the f'wit's vehicle. Within 200 metres the f'wit would be slowed down by that forward inteference wave, such that he/she/it would finish up bogged down in the morass that they themselves had created, along with everyone else. It would usually take about three minutes for the traffic stream to return to smooth order flow, but by then our prime f'wit would lunge again. You have to admit, f'wits are consistent(ly stupid.) I was doing theory of flight subjects at the time, and the observed traffic flow and expanding in both directions waves was a screamingly obviously example of Bernoulli's theorem of fluid flow, the fluid in this case being one tonne lumps of tin on wheels. From that day forth I have trumpeted the application of Bernoulli's theory to the prime objective of maintaining laminar flow in your fluid flow. Every driving instructor. State safety conferences. Police chiefs/ transport Ministers. Joe Blows. I'm not very good at getting the word out. I can and have sat across/between two lanes of erratic flowing traffic and ground those two lanes back to fluid flow by sitting dogmatically at what was obviously the average speed of the pack. Do that for about 2 km, ignore the protests, and suddenly everything smoothes out and the entire mass of cars are back up to speed, at which point I quietly slip into the 'slow' lane, and let everyone tear off again. It works. Bernoulli Rules! OK?
Hardly, dear Zonk. Segue over to a Mac user, ask them to download a (free public release) copy of iCab (www.icab.de) and have a look at what ONE man (Alexander Clauss) is capable of. Mac only (it was your choice, folks)(or was it? Bill?) iCab was the first freely available public release browser to pass the Acid-2 test. Now, in his v4 series, having given in and gone over to webkit for his engine, iCab may perhaps not fly through Acid-3 when they finally resolve it as a test, but in the meantime Alexander is still 6-12 months ahead of anyone else for general innovation in the interface stakes. Opera is a follower, and often a fail-er. Netscape 8 on WinBox is possibly the nearest competitor. SeaMonkey on Mac a close third, and my main browser when Alex went through a sticky patch. iCab is simply the best browser interface you will use, in my considered opinion. Use it and be productive as no other browser allows. To be notified of constantly updated beta bleeding edge versions it will cost you a one-off US$29 - Max value. Am I biased? Blood oath! Jen of Brisbane
The question might surely should be; "is the U.S. driving the U.S. behind?" As almost the only country left on the planet that still can't accept the rationality of the metric system, and, As one of the only two countries on the planet that reject the rationality of the Kyoto Agreement's aims (even if they are not yet perfect), . . . it would seem to most outsiders that the good ol' is running on empty, certainly on reserves.
Oh dear.
How very childishly American.
After a max years exposure to Mac I recently had to resurrect an old WinBox to trial an Ox financial app. In my opinion of the 'dozer has not changed as a result. You want to achieve a something? Avoid Winbox. However. As part of that resurrection exercise, I loaded Lotus 97 for the first time. Speaking from my towering position of almost total WinBox ignorance, it seemed to me that your correspondent's report of the new 'office' interface, that it sounded remarkably like the Lotus interface, which, co-incidentally, I removed from my hard drive this morning. Jen