Agreed, developers need to keep old browsers in mind, but 3 years is an eternity in the fast paced "real world" of the internet. As for graceful degradation, I prefer using progressive enhancement.

sheesh. It's better, faster, supports all the latest web standards. Just do it, you won't regret it. FF10 is the new LTS option, so it will be the most stable option going forward, but personally I always have to be on the bleeding edge and am on nightly-ux FF13.

They both received nominations.

Comet tails have nothing to do with drag and everything to do with solar winds. They always face away from the sun, no matter what direction the comet is traveling.

Why did they use this measure? With Mars being so much smaller, of course a higher percentage of the volume would be hospitable. Mars has 15% of the volume of Earth but 28% of the surface area. Just seems like bad comparison.

Yeah, a huge difference between "ring worlds" and "ringED worlds".

Just reading the Foundation novels for the first time(through Foundation and Foundation & Empire so far) and I was definitely thinking about psychohistory even before reading that last sentence. While psychohistory was not about simulations, the point of these simulations is to better understand how all of these variables interact with eachother and the eventual outcomes. It's this understanding that could lead to the mathematical model of psychohistory. Not saying it will, obviously, but the similarity is there.

Got started with QBASIC when I was a youngin, wrote a rudimentary wireframe 3D renderer that worked at about 1 frame per second, and I've been hooked ever since. I always had problems with these early classes that I would go far beyond the assignment and get marked down for not following the instructions. Like in this Visual Basic class, we had to do this simple matching game, and I made Wheel of Fortune with Simpsons graphics and sound effects. DOH!

It's most likely a leaky extension in that case.

While definitely not perfect, they look a lot better to me than the JPEG images due to the lack of nasty JPEG compression artifacts. Seriously, zoom in and try to hold your lunch in while looking at the JPEG images. Unfortunately there is no fallback mechanism for images like there is for video.

"I kill more pedestrians."

Exactly, the video tag is just one very small part of it. I hate that so many people refer to it this way.

This already exists, it's called the Illinois Math and Science Academy.

Yeah, I've got a full copy of 7 but haven't installed it yet. It's called being lazy. :) Seriously though, the RC is perfectly stable, I've noticed no difference between the RTM I use at work and the RC I use at home.

That's pocket change for Google, and they get much more in return from ad revenues. In case you forgot, that's what this is all about, ad revenue from their search engine and services. Google's enemy is Microsoft, not Mozilla, and right now Mozilla is Microsoft's biggest enemy in the browser space. So as they say, the enemy of your enemy is your friend.