Posts by Nick 11

German lad hit by 30,000 mph meteorite

"I call shenanigans!"

How can a pea sized meteorite cause a "foot-wide crater in the ground" First up, the terminal velocity by the time its come through the atmosphere will be significantly less than 30,000mph, secondly its mass is going to be so small as to not have enough force to create a massive dint, even if its an extremely dense rock. If it were true, the southern United States would be covered in massive holes where bits of the shuttle Columbia returned to Earth. I don't doubt that this young fella got a whack on the bonce, but I suspect that it fell into a pot hole, and thats where the trouble started.

Microsoft to bomb Europe with IE-free Windows 7

Gahhhh

Great, something else our engineers need to remember to add to a PC image. We standardised on IE because we knew it would be on all of our desktops. Now there's the risk that we'll end up with diverged platforms and the nightmare of CSS. Thanks Europe for getting them to remove it. Thanks to Microsoft for writing non-compliant browsers (but at least they were consistently bad). Why can't they just have a tick box on install that says do you want IE or not?

Or, just have two SKU's, priced the same, one with added IE and advertisied as such. Joe Public will buy the one with added extra's every time (provided they read the box).