Rightly so. They know what's good for them.

As is said several times in the video - if Apple leave Cupertino, it's not good for Cupertino.

It's all relative, but personally I'd always imagined it was about that size. The orbiter is all about cargo space.

There was nothing surprising about the IIS picture for me.

It's not that big - remember that it can be transported strapped to the top of a 747.

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/ALT/Small/ECN-6887.jpg

The ISS is probably smaller than the GP thought.

No, it actually made sense, but it was just a very bizarre solution to the problem (to an IT professional).

An internet security expert will have several tools and methods at their disposal but I somehow doubt "developing a GUI in Visual Basic" would be one of them :)

Developing a GUI in Visual Basic isn't going to help you track an IP address (although it might make tracking an IP address look a bit prettier). Whatever "tracking an IP address" actually means anyway - possibly traceroute or some sort of geolocation - something for a which an existing tool would probably exist anyway.

It's just... wrong... and very cringeworthy.

I had no idea what you meant until I saw this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Made me cringe!

I've used http-digest myself several times, but it isn't used much in the real world due to cosmetic issues. It doesn't look like part of the site, it's not easy to add "forgotten password" links to it, and so on.

To customers, who typically don't understand the technical merits of a solution, it is worse than an in-page web form.

Here is a method that combines the two approaches - http digest via Javascript:
http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html
What's nice about this is that you can fall back to standard http digest if Javascript isn't available.

I wonder if there is a middle ground. It would be possible on Javascript enabled browsers to calculate a hash (MD5, SHA or similar) using the password plus a seed and send that to the server instead of the plain text password.

FUD... are you sure? As in fear, uncertainty and doubt?

Not necessarily. According to their figures, Baidu is pretty insignificant globally - although it's huge in China. Maybe only a relatively small percentage of Chinese people browse the web compared to other countries.

Have a look at:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-monthly-201002-201102
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-CN-monthly-201002-201102

Dan

Such as?

My mum suggested a similar but in my view better solution the other day, when I mentioned this 'road train' idea to her.

Small, possibly electric cars that you drive onto a train (as with the Eurotunnel) for long journeys. Small enough cars, like a Smart Car, could probably be loaded sideways directly from the platform meaning cars could exit at any station without disrupting the others.

This would combine the benefits of the car (point to point travel) with the benefits of the train (efficiency, range, safety).

The Spectrum was significantly cheaper than the rivals. The CPU ran faster than the C64 but the graphics weren't as good - but what really sold it was the huge following it had in the UK. At one point there were three separate mainstream magazines available (I used to buy all three and still have them somewhere).

On price, here's the Argos catalogue circa 1985:

Spectrum: £119.95
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593465768/in/set-72157619206330728/

Commodore 64: £189.00
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592657253/in/set-72157619206330728/

60s even... it was developed in the '60s and first flew in 1969... quite something really.

Sorry, my mistake.

OK, perhaps I should have left it at just "Drupal" :)