This is probably another unapproved translation as zed said his book was meant for teaching python and we need substantial changes for ruby.
The other book basically translated the code from python to ruby while keeping much of the text the same I don't know if this is the case with this one.
The prose in this translation is nearly 100% identical to the Python version with the exception of a few paragraphs that have been modified to be relevant to Ruby. All of the code exercises and required libraries have been completely adapted for Ruby. In other words, Zed did all the really hard work.
I guess I am not the target audience either, but gnome2 remains my favorite desktop environment and once that is dropped from distros I will go another route, perhaps xfce but it does indeed have many shortcomings.
For something as obvious as for gaming (where in the video other games have people running around while these guys are hovering around a static environment), I expect something that at least looks like a game, hell id go for simple animation such as the top comments blade of grass.
I try to make my websites work in ie6 but with minimal work, I'll let IE6 users use it but it will be a degraded experience and most of my website for normal people actually haven't seen such high IE6 usage as 6.5%.
I think that's pretty much the best solution. For old browsers in general, have a legacy HTML-only fallback site. This makes IE6 and Lynx users happy alike :-) It doesn't need to be pretty but it needs to be functional enough to do all the stuff your customers need to do.
Asus is going to sell(presumably) the eee x101 running MeeGo for 200$, with decent specs for a "net oriented" computer(1 core Atom, 1GB RAM, 8GB SSD), so aren't manufacturing limitations what drive them away from that price tag. May be Google doesn't want to be identified with the somewhat crappy experience that low end hardware may deliver, just as they don't want Android to be associated with cheap smartphones, but with the iPhone competitors.
Which would be silly because their "OS" is much more limited than Windows 7, even the Starter version, and its only compelling feature would be to run on much cheaper hardware.
To be honest the emails he got could have easily annoyed him and seem to have come from someone who believes he is not interrupting into someones time (especially after the first response which is reasonable for someone without "citable" credentials).
I'd like to think he gets a large amount of emails a day and the fact that this person wanted credentials but decided to email rather than research further could have hit a nerve.
Just look so far as the final response shown:
> I think that you shouldn't write articles under the mindset that you know what you're talking about...
sure, I admit the emailer went on to judge, but his initial email was:
> Hello, I'm citing your work for a debate article I'm using
> about space colonization and how it is improbable. I do
> need credentials however, and I've yet to find them online.
> If you could reply with your credentials that'd be great.
No harm in that email, very simple.
But then the blogger went on to whip out his e-peen and tell the kid to go to his wikipedia rather than just write "I'm a self taught novelist who thoroughly researches his topics he writes about but doesn't have credentials in the traditional sense".
EDIT: I apparently have no idea how to do quotes on HN despite my valiant attempt to do so. I apologize.
This isn't really anything to do with seo but make your front page static and move the rest (all the wedding pictures) to another page with a limit (maybe 5 or 10 a page).
I thought your site was broken but it was just loading so much.
That page load absolutely killed my connection and google could be punishing it. (Though I don't know if they punish download size)
The option should be available in your wordpress install.
Thanks for the input, we have thought about going down that path with more of a static landing page something like a 'portfolio| blog | contact' format that would also address the load issues... We'd love to find a designer to help with the layout etc.. most people we talk with are all about templates that don't exactly fit our needs.
The other book basically translated the code from python to ruby while keeping much of the text the same I don't know if this is the case with this one.