Actually I believe it will be Opera Maxi for the iPad.

I would imagine that their new contract with EA would include access to a high dollar team of lawyers.

I agree with you. Because, I don't follow the SSD market so close. I hear it's a performance gain but slight at that. I've not heard about slower performance over time. Would like to know more. So yes, I don't think an assumption should be made. Maybe, an assumption and then a reference link for those that don't.

The problem with buying computer hardware online is the cost of shipping it back if you need to return it. And with manufacturers cutting costs by making silent changes to the chipset (e.g. from Atheros to Broadcom) within a model number, it is more likely than not that eventually you will need to return something.

The problem with buying computer hardware in a local shop is that they likely do not carry the model you picked out when you browsed the HCL.

Yeah ditto on that weirdness vibe. Kind of makes one wonder how they handle something like America's Sex Offender registry.

You'll get websites saying you need to download this codec to watch this video, and people will do it. With a standard codec, if a site does that, users can be educated that they shouldn't download ANY codec.

Even if delvers better sound and video? Significantly improved compression?

Closed captioning, secfond channel audio or other benefits?

Tell me why the geek thinks the web should be permenently bound to whatever codec he - and perhaps he alone - thinks is "technologically superior" or "politically correct."

Why there should be no competition, no room for experiment.

The expression language in SceneGrinder for those attributes that need more complexity is javascript. For any game system, a template is build... usually a "character" template, which holds attributes (STR,DEX,INT, etc.). Templates are built in the online template editor, but if an attribute is complex the author can resort to javascript in the expression. Most expressions are simple one line affairs ([STR]/2 + [CON]/2), but you can go multi line and as complex as you need. Attributes can "contain" other templates, so you can have backpacks which contain equipment, one of which is a pouch with a box that contains a bag of holding...you get the idea. The docs are all online with plenty of sample expressions. I have not used RPtools myself so I cannot judge the difference. I know that's a fine and respected product, though. I'd love to hear your opinion on whether we moved the bar forward or not.

Finally long super volatile import Ellison break instanceof native abstract class Glosling.

Who not go to college? Java is a very good language for learning programming.

Stability (by definition) is the antithesis to the IT industry.

Baloney. Eventually the Moore's law gravy train that's been responsible for a lot of the continued development and the rapid change will be over. When that will happen I don't know, but it will. Much of the innovations of new languages has been at least in part been a result of Moore's law. Sure, the change and innovation will likely never stop, but it will slow. Even farming has innovation and change in it and it's one of the oldest activities we have.

Think I'm wrong? Imagine what the world would be like if Moore's law stopped 20 years ago with the transistor count of the 486. That will herald a different era, likely geared towards doing more with the same amount of stuff.

And I'm pretty sure you'd be dead wrong.*

The top public schools in the Chicago area are in some of the wealthiest suburbs, and they spend a lot of money per student.


*citation needed

There's commercial geophysics programs that only run on Sparc and x86 - and some of them are dropping support for Sparc. The biggest x86 you can throw the software at gets the job done.
I'm sure there are similar stories in other fields.

I am still trying to picture a spiritual game.

"Do androids dream of electric sheep" had an electronic game that was pretty well what you describe, except as unseen enemies threw rocks at you as you climbed the mountain you just had to grit your teeth and bear it.

I think you'll find that what's actually occurred here is that just as a "dwarf planet" is technically not a planet, an "extra-solar planet" also doesn't fit the definition and therefore also isn't technically a planet.

A good definition makes things clearer. This definition clearly fails by that criteria.

Also my point about clearing the orbit was more about the formation of the planet. Even with a solid body formed and most of it's mass present, if it's still part of the solar disk and still subject to bombardment it is not a planet. What the hell it is during the early part of solar disk evolution isn't clear.

Which is why any decent sql language/database interface will throw an exception if a query fails.

Oh and is MySQL the only database that just let the query hang until there is free diskspace again?