"browser standards compliance is so much better"

Not even. Closest one to any sort of compliance is Chrome, which is a multi-process steaming hunk of garbage. It can do HTML5 and WebGL properly.

FireFox? Trying to log into my in-development game using the web interface, (again, pure HTML5 and WebGL) it fucking horks. What's sad is that IE8 works better for my web game than the latest version of FireFox.

Opera? Give me a fucking break.

"some developers distrust its use in larger projects because (some say) it ultimately leads to breakage-prone code that's harder to maintain."

Most likely because they write shit bloated code in the first place.

Meanwhile, jQuery + SQLite + MariaDB connector, I've got my own personal intelligent porn recommendation/scraper/indexer site that runs through a few million images and renders my requested search results in under a tenth of a second.

So odds are, it's those developers talking about breakage-prone code that are the crap devs, anyways.

Avira sucks.

Common sense with yearly upgrades.

Haven't been compromised since Win2K/BLASTER days.

Meanwhile, I can force-uninstall Avira, because its own protection mechanisms are ABSOLUTE ASS.

You're the shill. Take Avira's dick out of your mouth for a minute. Even NOD32 kicks the shit out of Avira.

Dude, Canada's maple whiskey is some of the best shit on the planet.

http://www.saq.com/page/en/saq...

If you think otherwise, you're sorely mistaken.

That's coming from a BAD alcoholic with two+ decades of experience tasting alcohols from around the world.

You do not need to be driving. You do not need HUDs to tell you that the red sign up ahead is a stop sign. Nor do you need some accident early-warning system - if you WATCHED THE FUCKING ROAD you'd likely see the accident scene before getting to it (some locations/obstructions of scenery may give varying results.)

And wait for your night vision to get completely turned to ass when they start introducing these HUDs in different colors as a fashion statement. Anything other than red - you're much more likely to crash at night because your night vision is being fucked with.

HUDs MAKE ZERO SENSE IN TYPICAL CIVILIAN APPLICATIONS.

Keep that shit in the military where it belongs.

Apparently since the mods have zero critical thinking ability, I'll just have to answer.

We have EMULATORS.

Transpilers are FUCKING WORTHLESS in the face of emulation.

"On a very closely related thought this same sort of idea can be used to translate software so that what ran on older legacy platforms or incompatible platforms can automatically be able to run on newer hardware"

Transpilers have existed for ages.

" We need this in a big way."

There's a reason transpilers aren't in use today despite existing - I'll leave that up to you and some deeper critical thinking than what you currently display.

Yea? Several programs I've written do exactly that. There are game dev platforms that can put everything, database included, inside the executable upon compiling.

Ever made a self-extracting .EXE file? If you did it on a piece of software with a database attached - THAT DATABASE IS STORED IN THE EXECUTABLE.

-1 for not knowing marine batteries mean for marine vessels - you know - REGULAR BOATS that would be in port at a MARINA.

This seems like a new version of the Eliza program with more memory.

Video stream

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia...

I'm not going to say that I make sense. I'm just parroting my personal experiences in managing and coding various projects.

It only makes sense to those that are not afraid to admit that they are wrong and have encountered this same problem of which I speak.

I thank you for the praise, however! It is rare I see MOB programming get any credit of any sort.

There was one other thing that cinched it (IIRC) - the original mission goal for Voyager was to explore the Jupiter and Saturn systems (NOT to do the "grand tour"). For the planning for Voyager I, the mission goals hadn't been completed (as neither Voyager had gotten to Saturn at that point), and Sagan made a strong case that the mission goal should include Titan, and that the mission goals should be completed to the extent possible with Voyager I. When Voyager II came to Saturn, the mission goals had been met (by Voyager I), so they could take the gravity assist to go on to Uranus and Neptune on an extended mission.

Well, how do you think the Golden Record got on the side of the spacecraft? I am sure your favorite search engine will reveal something on that.

How do you think these decisions are made? Carl Sagan was involved with basically every NASA planetary mission (including Apollo) from 1960 through Voyager and Viking. He proposed that Titan might have a lot of hydrocarbons (it does) a thick atmosphere (it does), haze (check) and maybe a biosphere (the jury is still out). (He did propose a strong greenhouse for Titan, and struck out there. The surface is not as balmy as he hoped.) As far as I can remember, no one was proposing a biosphere for Pluto (we didn't even know Pluto had a moon at that point). The decision to do a Titan close approach was rational, and (while it certainly wasn't his decision alone) his advocacy for it carried a lot of weight.