... Going Forward... /me throws up

... for the simple and painful reason that much of the web, even to this day, is built to account for IE6....

A very impressive demo - and nice eye candy right at the start!!

My only problem with this is the sheer SIZE of required QT Libraries.

During the demo, the author downloaded over 25MB of QT Libraries to run some simple applications. 25MB is just too much.

My HTC Desire 2.2 hovers around the 25MB-30MB free space due to having only about 150MB internal memory to play with (the rest of the 256MB is taken up with bloat that came with the phone and cannot be removed).

I guess this will become far more relevant as the next gen phones hit the scene (these typically have >>> 512MB memory).

Still, very very very impressive.

Batman. Every. Single. Time.

"I see you do much working with the spice... you make paper... plastics... and isn't that chemical explosives?"....

I can think of no better gift than a telescope. I still remember the day my father gave me a simple Newtonian telescope in the early 80s. It has shaped and directed my inquisitiveness, curiosity and love of science ever since.

I think we are far more likely to see a Mad Max type future starting from 2020 than friking flying cars.

>like the free Deep Sky Stacker to align them into a final image with total exposure time equal to all the shots combines

This is excellent advice on getting a much improved image quality but do note that stacking images will not give you the same results as a single image using the combined stack times.

In other words, if each image in the stack is 20 seconds then 10 stacked images will not give you an equivalent of a 200 second exposure.

Stacking 10 images simply improves the image quality by removing hot pixels. The result, however, is still a 20 second exposure.

The single 200 second exposure image will contain fainter objects (and more noise) when compared to the stacked 20 second image.

RUN ON LINUX???

Sorry but W7 is NOT faster than XP

Title says it all

I generally do 80 hours coding/debugging documentation (over 6 days) across three projects and two programming languages (five if you count HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby and Delphi as separate languages).

I do find that by day six I am mentally exhausted and need a day off, which means no PC time at all.

A day off used to mean playing with a side project... but that got too exhausting.

I was at my local HSBC Bank branch in the UK a few years ago and spied OS/2 in use by their staff as part of their load/mortgage assessment "wizard".

It was either OS/2 or Windows 3.1....

This was around 2005/2006?

I don't know if its me (I'm getting jaded and cynical in my old age) but I do keep wondering how Oracle's takeover will affect Sun's OS efforts.

The only reason I mention this is that there has been a noticeable (at least IMHO) change in VirtualBox development. Since the Oracle takeover, VirtualBox development seems to have changed direction or slowed down... I can't really put my finger on it but something noticeable has happened. I don't if the core devs have been affected/left or what.... but certain VirtualBox issues, issues you might think would be simple to fix, have remained unfixed for the last couple of months.

Again, I'm not too sure if Netbeans (I haven't used Netbeans for 6+ months) is affected.

Has anyone else noticed any shifts in Sun's OS offerings?