BBC in general is missing out on non-UK revenue by trying (in vain) to limit consumption to UK tax-paying folks only. Outside the UK they could charge fees/subscriptions, and enjoy additional revenue from people like me that like their content but live in, say, the USA. The current situation is lame. (End of rant.)

"If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double", an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.'"

        - Charles McGrath, New York Times, May 6, 2007

Hear, hear! Same situation for me. I eventually get burned out doing *anything* for 40 hours a week.

Like you, I've been down the career counsellor track, and she didn't know what to do with me. "What's your passion? What would you love to get up and do every day?" For 40 hours a week? For the next ~30 years? I can't name a thing...

> Alaska only has one of the three.

Poor leadership? Oh, wait, SarahP dropped out...

Obviously, the biggest use of Flash on the web is embedded video, but this is hardly the only use, and those are seldom mentioned in the HTML5 v. Flash discussions. With Scribd converting to HTML5, the field seems to be opening up (though their use of Flash always struck me as being an anti-copying measure more than anything else).

So far as I know, HTML5 isn't suitable for things like graphical configurators or 3D models (allowing the user to rotate them) -- or is it? There's QTVR for 3D stuff, but it's always seemed clunky to me. And I haven't seen anything but Flash used for configurators. Are there actually reasonable alternatives to Flash for this sort of thing?

In thirty years of driving through school zones in my city I haven't seen one kid use them. They're all bused or driven in, judging by the traffic crunch before and after school. All school zones do is piss off drivers who don't have kids just trying to get to work/whatever. These are four and six lane roadways that have to slow down to 20 mph from a normal 50 mph, talk about wasted gas and brake material. Never mind the rest of us paid for the cost of expanding the road and putting in the school zones. I know, lets make the parents pay for the zones and every other child protection piece of shit they want and let them face the anger of the working public. How about putting the schools away from the main streets instead of right next door. And remove the bastard who dreamed school zones up.
    By the way, any parent neglectful enough to let kids play near heavily used roadways deserves to lose them. Call it "passive eugenics". -- George Carlin.

Less here is actually rather subjective. Sure it doesn't function with the same purpose and may have less in the hardware spec, but the overall experience of being quick, reliable, and very good at the tasks it does shouldn't be understated.

so if we can just ignore laws we don't like, why not just pass a law that says everything done anywhere is illegal and then we can just have the police enforce it when ever they see fit.

> HA! I *knew* there was a reason to stay on Mac OS 9!

Coffee (with no cocoa) just spilled out of my nose.

> Carl Fargman

Carl Farbman